This update revisits the controversial EM Drive, once hailed as a potential fuel-free propulsion breakthrough. Recent German experiments, however, suggest that any observed thrust may simply be ...

It's going to be extremely chilly on Uranus, the coldest planet in our Solar System. Presented by Sophia Herod from BBC Weather.

The discovery of ancient water in a planet-forming disk reveals that some of the water found in comets—and maybe even ...

New research using NASA's powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere. The planet is within the "habitable zone," the region around a star where ...

"It would be amazing if a simple rotation of the universe was the origin of dark energy." What is dark energy? Why does dark energy seem to be weakening? Is our universe part of a larger multiverse?

A giant planet the size of Saturn orbiting a sun-like star has potentially been identified in our nearest neighbouring stellar system, Alpha Centauri. At just four light years from Earth, Alpha ...

Stars often whip their planets with stellar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat. But a newfound planet exerts an unexpectedly strong—and ultimately ...

Hannah Wakeford receives funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) framework under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee for an ERC Starter Grant (grant number EP/Y006313/1). Ryan ...