A cool flame: how Gaia theory was born out of a secret love affair
The long read: Scientist James Lovelock gave humanity new ways to think about our home planet – but some of his biggest ideas were the fruit of a passionate collaboration
August 2024
Australian climate and environment in focus
Vast ‘doughnut’ discovered in molten metal of Earth’s core
Australian scientists hail finding as a step in unlocking secrets of planet’s protective magnetic field
‘It’s going to be hair-raising’: high-risk slingshot move will send robot craft to Jupiter
European space scientists will begin a delicate navigation that will take a probe on scenic route to outer solar system
Astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol: ‘I believe Mars still has some big surprises for us’
The director of the Carl Sagan Center on the possibility of life elsewhere in our solar system, what Venus can teach us about global heating, and what she thinks of Elon Musk
July 2024
Starwatch
Starwatch: Saturn’s yellowish hue will stand out during close encounter with moon
Signs of two gases in clouds of Venus could indicate life, scientists say
June 2024
Royal Society exhibition revives 18th-century debate about shape of the Earth
‘Once in a lifetime’: UK and European space scientists urged to join Nasa mission to Uranus
May 2024
Six planets to appear in alignment next week in rare celestial parade
Earth-sized planet spotted orbiting small star with 100 times sun’s lifespan
January 2024
True blue: Neptune only slightly deeper colour than Uranus, say Oxford scientists
Both ice giants are similar pale blue, new research finds, correcting earlier beliefs about the planets’ relative hues
December 2023
Alien intelligence is surely worth shining a light on
Letters: Readers respond to a piece about Harvard’s Avi Loeb and his explorations into extraterrestrial life
November 2023
Planets of distant solar system orbit star in coordinated dance, say scientists
The alien hunter: has Harvard’s Avi Loeb found proof of extraterrestrial life?
Science Weekly
What have we learned from the James Webb space telescope so far? – podcast
Planet where it rains sand revealed by Nasa telescope
Nasa’s hunt for signs of life on Mars divides experts as mission costs rocket
Blobs near Earth’s core are remnants of collision with another planet, study says
October 2023
Afterglow of cataclysmic collision between two planets seen for first time
Discovery of ‘Jumbos’ may herald new astronomical category
