Race to Venus: What we’ll discover on Earth’s toxic twin

Scientists want to return to Venus, so they can try to find out why it morphed from a pleasant planet … More

Is there a wormhole hiding at the centre of the Milky Way?

We talk to Dejan Stojkovic, professor of cosmology, about whether the black hole at the centre of our Galaxy might … More

Australia’s bushfires are still burning, with an estimated one billion animals killed, more than six million hectares of land turned … More

Delight the kids in your life by showing them the International Space Station – it looks just like Santa delivering … More

Amazingly, it is possible to see the spiral arms of Andromeda, our nearest galaxy 2.5 million light years away – … More

Winter is the best time to see the amazing phenomenon of the polar lights, when solar particles stream into Earth’s … More

Mercury is so tiny and close to the sun it can be tricky to see. But now it’s at its … More

I wrote the cover story for the December 2019 issue of BBC Science Focus magazine. Our planet’s toxic twin has … More

Two of the brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, are in conjunction this week, meaning they appear to line up with … More

SpaceX has a plan to launch 42,000 Starlink satellites into orbit, but the first 120 are already blocking astronomers’ view … More