In 2007 astronomers discovered a strange event in data obtained using the 63m radio telescope at Parkes, Australia. It was a pulse of cosmic r…

TRAPPIST-1 is a red dwarf star lying about 40.7 light-years away. It is of particular interest because it has seven earth-like planets orbitin…

It might be surprising, but two of the most important discoveries in radio astronomy were made by accident. Maybe just as surprisingly, by eng…

On 20 October, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On 4 September, 2023, as it passed by the earth en …

It is not often that all the planets in the Solar System other than ours are lined up across the night sky for us to see. The show is in progr…

Once again the James Webb Space Telescope has come up with a stunning and intriguing image. Taken with some major cosmic help, it shows one of…