7 June 2023
Phil Plait, the man behind the Bad Astronomy blog, is a great guide to the wonders of the cosmos. But would it be a bad thing if his new book created a fresh reverence for our home planet among some readers?
27 July 2022
In Emmi Itäranta's The Moonday Letters, humans have adapted to live off-world. But central to this genre-crashing thrill ride is a reminder that hope is essential
22 September 2021
Natalie Starkey's new book will make you rethink what you thought you knew about how volcanoes around our solar system look, what they do and what comes out of them when they erupt
16 January 2019
What exciting discoveries await the Elite Dangerous mission to the Milky Way’s outer edges? It’s not run by NASA but the epic sciencey game feels like the real deal
11 October 2018
Mesmerising footage from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and an exquisite Bronze Age golden disc help a new show capture our complex relationship with the sun
26 September 2018
London's Natural History museum gets a new theatre, The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe gets a book and the biggest exhibition about our star
12 September 2017
Forty years after the Voyager spacecraft launched, a movie captures the grandeur of the project – plus its alien appeal
30 June 2017
Why have more space rocks been recovered in Morocco than in other countries of a similar size? It’s a great question for the world’s Asteroid Day
14 June 2017
The idea that movement helps us grasp abstruse science is key to 8 Minutes, a new piece of contemporary dance coming soon to Sadler's Wells, London
25 May 2017
A production by London’s Young Vic of Bertolt Brecht’s play about Galileo turns a sombre affair into a raucous rave – for better and for worse
