The universe, slowly explained.
Space, physics, nature and the human body. Big questions told slowly, one idea at a time.
Astronomers have found two rings of planetary rubble around a white dwarf, kept apart by what may be two survivors of the star's death. One could be the size of Pluto.
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The James Webb Space Telescope watched the lava world TOI-561 b for 37 hours. It bounces back about 75% of its starlight, as if it wears a giant layer of sunscreen.
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Why do we pay money to be chased by zombies? Danish researchers strapped heart monitors on visitors to a 50-room horror house and found the answer looks like an upside-down U.
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It's called 2026 ED138 for now. It sat in front of the Milky Way's crowd of stars, which is why nobody spotted it. If confirmed, it joins a tiny family of dwarf planets.
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Europe's Euclid space telescope is supposed to map the dark universe. A PhD student in Helsinki ran his own little program over its photos and spotted a blurry streak. It's a brand-new comet, now called C/2026 S1 (Euclid).
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The first people near the Moon in over 50 years didn't just take selfies. They took notes, in coloured pen, and NASA has just made it all public.
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Swift chased the biggest blasts in the universe since 2004. A robot tried to rescue it and ran out of fuel. Now it's slowly falling home.
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No shops, no quick calls home, the same three faces every morning for 378 days. On 31 October four volunteers finally open the door. Here's what a year of pretend Mars looks like.
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