24 May 2021
Neutron stars, the remnant cores of stars that have gone supernova, are some of the densest objects in the universe, and their intense gravity means their surface differs in height by less than 0.1 millimetre
7 May 2021
Physicists have measured the "neutron skin" of an atom for the first time, and perhaps unsurprisingly, it is extremely thin. The measurement may help us understand the properties of neutron stars
1 April 2020
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who discovered that hydrogen dominates our universe, finally gets the recognition she deserves in a rich biography, What Stars Are Made Of
18 November 2019
A sophisticated computer simulation of the universe, approximately 1 billion light years across, is modelling tens of thousands of galaxies
7 August 2019
Exoplanets are abundant near the galaxy's smallest stars. Observing M dwarfs could teach us more about the worlds beyond our solar system, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
4 December 2018
Dark matter is the mysterious glue that holds everything together – but will we ever pin down its true nature? Astrophysicist Chamkaur Ghag thinks we will
20 July 2018
The sun’s size changes throughout its 11-year cycle of magnetic activity, and measuring that growth may help us figure out what’s going on inside
9 May 2018
A shoestring experiment in the Australian outback has seen the signal of the very first stars – and a weird effect astronomers are struggling to explain
30 April 2018
Last week, the Gaia spacecraft released the best 3D map of our galaxy, which revealed scars in the Milky Way and deepened confusion about how fast the cosmos is expanding
21 March 2018
From the hunt for a theory of everything to the complex Rosetta mission, there’s treasure to be found in a trawl of some of the recent popular science writing
