An Ancient Solar System...

  The 'WOW' signal - did S.E.T.I find something? If, like me, you have 'space nerd' written through your middle the...

The earliest days of the solar system would have been a very strange place for us -  the planets had not yet formed and instead there were h...

I've been feeling seriously walloped by this cold, added to a fortnight of long shifts at my day job, so I'm holding back on publish...

For once the side-raining, hailstoning, sunburning  Scottish weather co-operated - at first there didn't seem much hope: A path of dark...

The Sun is generally a very nice thing to have nearby, especially because we'd all freeze to death without it. But this week the Sun thr...

Nature usually manages to outdo humankind's best achievements: We have the tallest building ( Burj Khalifa in Dubai at 830 meters), bu...

The Cassini mission has been returning a lot of interesting data from the moons of the Saturn system, and on two of its most interesting wor...