On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

Earth: The Most Fascinating Planet in the Universe? Even though we live on this planet, there’s still so much we don’t know!

What Causes the Northern Lights? The Northern Lights, also known as the Aurora Borealis, are among the most captivating ...

A neutron star’s density is mind-boggling. These stars are composed almost entirely of neutrons packed together in a tiny radius. Just a teaspoonful of this material would weigh over a trillion ...

Compared to Earth, the planet Jupiter is about 11 times larger in circumference, 5 times farther from the Sun, 4 times colder, and it rotates 2.5 times faster. Based on the numbers, this gas giant ...

NASA has found something on Uranus and Neptune. The ice giants of the solar system have long been enigmas for science.

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Earth is home to some truly bizarre and breathtaking landscapes — here are 20 that look straight out of an alien world. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Everybody’s got a story to tell.” Hans Zimmer has composed Earth especially for Ten Pieces. The piece is his personal celebration of the planet we live on. With his trademark sense of scale ...

Pupils from St Ninian’s Primary School in Perth present their facts on the Sun, Solar System and the planets in it, in this film made with the BBC Scotland LAB.