Explore distant worlds, cosmic mysteries and humanity’s journey beyond Earth.
Some of the solar system’s largest oceans never see the Sun. Gravity, magnetic fields and plumes reveal liquid water beneath the ice of distant moons.
Sep 16, 2026 • 4 min readRead the discovery →New stories, explanations and research from Space & The Universe.
Stars begin inside cold molecular clouds when regions become dense enough for gravity to overcome support from gas pressure, turbulence and magnetic fields, producing…
Sep 28, 2026 • 12 min read
Solar sails use the small but continuous pressure of reflected sunlight to change a spacecraft’s motion without consuming conventional propellant for each manoeuvre.
Sep 24, 2026 • 12 min read
Mass bends spacetime and therefore the paths of light, allowing galaxies and clusters to magnify, distort or multiply the images of more distant objects…
Sep 24, 2026 • 12 min read
The Moon does not physically change shape. Half of it is illuminated by the Sun at almost all times, and its phases occur because…
Sep 23, 2026 • 14 min read
The northern lights form when energetic charged particles guided by Earth’s magnetic field collide with atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere. Those gases…
Sep 23, 2026 • 14 min read
Mass bends spacetime and distorts background light, allowing astronomers to reconstruct matter that emits no light of its own.
Sep 23, 2026 • 12 min read
Neutrinos escape the solar core almost immediately, carrying information about fusion that light cannot deliver until far later.
Sep 23, 2026 • 12 min read
Dark and bright lines in a spectrum reveal which atoms interact with starlight, while their shifts and shapes disclose motion, temperature and pressure.
Sep 23, 2026 • 12 min read
Kilometre-scale laser interferometers measure minute changes in spacetime and reconstruct mergers far beyond the Milky Way.
Sep 21, 2026 • 12 min read
Activity on the Sun can launch radiation and magnetized plasma that disrupt radio, satellites, navigation and power systems near Earth.
Sep 21, 2026 • 13 min read
Kilometre-scale laser interferometers measure minute changes in spacetime and reconstruct mergers far beyond the Milky Way.
Sep 21, 2026 • 12 min read
Activity on the Sun can launch radiation and magnetized plasma that disrupt radio, satellites, navigation and power systems near Earth.
Sep 21, 2026 • 13 min read
Astronomers separate tiny planetary fingerprints from starlight to infer gases, clouds, temperatures and winds on worlds light-years away.
Sep 13, 2026 • 8 min read
A neutron star compresses more mass than the Sun into a sphere the size of a city, turning its interior into a laboratory for…
Sep 13, 2026 • 11 min readOne remarkable idea at a time—nature, science, history and beyond.
