Life
Don’t send bugs to Mars
A plan to send live microbes to the Red Planet's largest moon risks wrecking our search for extraterrestrial life, argues Barry E. DiGregorio
Opinion
Space
Giant ice volcano may have been found on Titan
News
Space
Geminid meteors set to dazzle
News
Space
Probe fails to orbit Venus and flies into space
News
Space
Saturn’s strange propellers show how planets are born
Features
Space
Space debris may cause mysterious ball lightning
News
Space
Experiment casts doubt on origins of lunar water
News
Life
Hardy bugs could survive a million years on Mars
News
Space
Comet caught throwing basketball-sized snowballs
News
Space
Former ‘tenth planet’ may be smaller than Pluto
Eris, a distant body that triggered the debate about what constitutes a planet, may actually be smaller than Pluto, according to new observations
News
Space
LCROSS mission may have struck silver on the moon
News
Space
Solved: mystery of the meteor-shedding asteroid
News
Space
Cosmic accidents: Sparking up our star
Features
Space
Cosmic accidents: Mars attacks
Features