20 August 2025
A billion or so years into its evolution, the icy dwarf planet Ceres may have had the right conditions to sustain life, which indicates the solar system may be more habitable than we thought
13 August 2025
Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient origins and glimpsing the destiny that awaits it in the distant future
8 August 2025
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected a possible gas giant the size of Saturn in the stellar system nearest our own
10 July 2025
Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma can produce a truly novel kind of extraterrestrial wave near its poles
2 July 2025
From generation ships to climate change, there has been some stellar sci-fi out in the past six months. Our columnist Emily H. Wilson picks her favourites
2 July 2025
Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars go boom twice in the blink of an eye
23 June 2025
Astronomers have been trying to detect atmospheres on planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, but bursts of radiation from the star make this challenging
22 May 2025
The unusual orbit of a possible dwarf planet, known as 2017 OF201, makes it less likely that our solar system contains a hidden ninth “Planet Xâ€
21 May 2025
After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion
16 May 2025
Stars that pass close to the solar system could pull planets out of alignment, sending them hurtling into the sun or out into space
