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Two satellites scrambling into orbit after launch went wrong

31 January 2018

The two satellites are moving themselves into orbit after the rocket carrying them lost contact with Earth, causing it to offload them in the wrong place

7 things we thought were made by aliens, but weren't... probably

31 January 2018

Unexplained phenomena from Martian canals to genomic patterns have been ascribed to alien intelligence – but mainly that's turned out to be wishful thinking

Interstellar: The bizarre visitor from a far-off solar system

31 January 2018

First seen in October 2017, the space rock 'Oumuamua looks like a skyscraper tumbling through space – and challenges our ideas of how planetary systems form

Dark matter near black holes sends gamma rays from galaxy's core

29 January 2018

An overabundance of gamma rays come from the centre of our galaxy. Dark matter annihilating near the edges of medium-sized black holes could be the source

Neutrinos may have more kinds of cosmic sources than we thought

26 January 2018

Trillions of neutrinos hit Earth each day, but we don’t know where they come from. A new model shows how many may be made in our atmosphere, our galaxy and beyond

Early Earth’s air may show us how to find signs of alien life

24 January 2018

Oxygen isn’t the best beacon of life on an alien world. We need to look for other gases organisms spew into the air, and early Earth can show us what to target