13 August 2020
By now we’re all feeling the effects of video call fatigue. Even though we’ve found new ways to connect with each other virtually during lockdown, remote conversation can’t replace the benefits of real, face-to-face social interactions.In the pod this...
13 August 2020
By now we’re all feeling the effects of video call fatigue. Even though we’ve found new ways to connect with each other virtually during lockdown, remote conversation can’t replace the benefits of real, face-to-face social interactions.In the pod this...
10 August 2020
New analysis of data from the Dawn spacecraft suggests there may be a liquid water ocean beneath the Occator crater on Ceres, the largest asteroid in the solar system
13 July 2020
So far we've found thousands of exoplanets, and this number is rising fast.
25 June 2020
A star just 11 light years away is calm enough that we may be able to study the atmospheres of three planets that seem to orbit it – one of which could be in the star's habitable zone
9 April 2020
Brown dwarfs, which are halfway between huge planets and small stars, have extremely powerful winds whipping around them at speeds of about 650 metres per second
2 March 2020
White dwarf stars are common in the galaxy, but astronomers have found one that doesn't seem to obey the rules. They think it was born when two smaller white dwarfs merged together
17 February 2020
For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet by detecting radio waves generated by interactions with its parent star
5 February 2020
Every day on Pluto, nitrogen puffs out the icy world’s heart-shaped plain into the atmosphere, and every night it refreezes, creating winds unlike any we’ve seen before
17 December 2019
More than 100 exoplanets and the stars they orbit have just been officially named by a public vote. The names reference woolly hats, bush pigeons, coffee and van Gogh
