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Quartz, also known as silica, is everywhere. This mineral is in the screen of the laptop or phone you’re reading this article on. It’s used to make computer chips, which are in everything from medical equipment to washing machines. It can be melted to produce glass.

Wildlife advocacy groups stress ‘permanent’ consequences of failing to address biodiversity and climate

Euclid's mission is to explore the dark universe, but an error resulted in a beautiful image of lassos across the stars.

This year, the Hubble Space Telescope found an ephemeral blue blast in the strangest of places, leaving astronomers puzzled.

The new entities, nicknamed ‘JuMBOs’, are neither stars nor planets. And they shouldn’t exist, researchers say.

Jupiter-mass binary objects floating freely in Orion Nebula appear to defy usual definition of planets

Around 15 years ago, I was on a European Space Agency (Esa) committee, looking at Esa’s strategy for proposed forthcoming space missions. Under consideration was a mission to an asteroid. Over dinner, one of the committee members, an astrophysicist, quizzed me on why we needed to visit one of these…

Astronaut says rockets from Elon Musk’s SpaceX can reduce price of launching equipment

Germany became the 29th country to sign the Artemis Accords, a U.S.-led multilateral agreement meant to establish norms of behaviour in space and on the lunar surface

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has shown that an exoplanet around a star in the constellation Leo has some of the chemical markers that, on Earth, are associated with living organisms. But these are vague indications. So how likely is it that this exoplanet harbours alien life?

Are we alone? This question is nearly as old as humanity itself. Today, this question in astronomy focuses on finding life beyond our planet. Are we, as a species, and as a planet, alone? Or is there life somewhere else?