The Met Office forecasts that aurora will light up the sky over huge parts of the UK this evening.

NASA’s Voyager spacecraft made a landmark discovery when it ventured beyond the Solar System to reveal a searing ‘wall’ of high temperature located outside our cosmic neighbourhood

The Hubble Deep Field revolutionised astronomy by staring at a seemingly empty patch of sky for thousands of hours, unveiling a cosmos teeming with distant galaxies. But even Hubble can’t peer back far enough to witness the universe’s first moment of illumination; the Cosmic Dawn, when primordial darkness gave way to starlight. Now, the Square Kilometre Array promises to shatter that barrier. In a groundbreaking simulation, researchers have modelled 1000 hours of SKA observations, creating astronomy’s next great deep field, one designed to capture the universe’s very first sunrise.

A surprising discovery in Mars’ Jezero Crater suggests a mountain may be a dormant volcano.

Telescopes perched on the Andes Mountains glimpsed elusive encounters fueled by the first of the first stars in the universe more than 13 billion years ago.

Precious jadarite has the same chemical formula as the fictional kryptonite.