The Cosmic Diary of a Future Space Explorer is Blue Peter's Book Club choice for March 2026. Learn more about space travel as it is today, and what it could look like in the future in this exciting ...

Octopus Energy has been criticised by customers for introducing exit fees to new fixed tariffs; private dentists face an investigation into pricing; and is the "savings laddering" trend for you? Find ...

What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching ...

What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching spacecraft and a ...

The tiny nucleus of the comet (not visible) is surrounded by a bright halo of gas known as the coma. A long tail stretches away from the comet, and we see hints of rays, jets, streams and filaments.

You’ve probably followed the Mars rover missions on and off for years, watching those red-dust landscapes scroll across your ...

A new image captured by the Mars Express orbiter offers a striking view of one of the most heavily cratered regions on Mars. The image shows part of Arabia Terra, a vast plain located in the planet’s ...

Spiderweb-shaped rock patterns on Mars may rewrite the timeline of when water disappeared from the Red Planet.

Learn how bacteria survived a simulated asteroid impact and could travel between planets on asteroid debris.

Mars might have its own defense mechanism against life from Earth, in a kind of reverse of "The War of the Worlds" scenario ...

Craters, craters, and yet more craters: this snapshot from ESA's Mars Express is packed full of them, each as fascinating as ...