Now is the perfect time to see dwarf planet Ceres for yourself
24 November 2021
The only dwarf planet in the inner solar system, Ceres will be at its closest to Earth for a week from the end of November. Catch it while you can, says Abigail Beall
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Puzzle #89: Do you know which car set off first?
9 December 2020
Solve this week’s fiendish puzzle Sunday drivers. Plus the answer to puzzle #88
Puzzle #67: What relationship do the digits in this prime number have?
8 July 2020
Can you solve this week’s puzzle My Prime? Plus the answer to puzzle #66 set by Will Taylor
How to find Andromeda – a spiral galaxy you can see with the naked eye
11 December 2019
Amazingly, it is possible to see the spiral arms of Andromeda, our nearest galaxy 2.5 million light years away – if you just know where to look
Could Jupiter ever ignite into a star?
30 October 2019
Jupiter is big enough to be a star, so could it ever become one? The answer lies in knowing how a star forms, as readers explain
How to use the Orion constellation to find Sirius the dog star
16 October 2019
Some of the sky's brightest stars including Rigel and Betelgeuse are located in the iconic constellation Orion. Here's how to find it and then star-hop to Sirius
Nudge factor
23 August 2017
My 8-year-old son is very worried about Earth being destroyed by the sun when it becomes a red giant billions of years from now. I have tried to comfort him by suggesting we could shift Earth's orbit by hurling asteroids towards the planet on trajectories...
Feedback: Placenta pills promise new mums more Vitamin U
22 March 2017
Plus: an ocean cruise that circles the globe in a day, shining a light on the blackest of blacks, a dwarf planet made of muesli, and speed-reading the lastest John Scalzi novel.
Craters and canyons hint at violent past of Pluto's moon Charon
2 October 2015
NASA's New Horizons probe has sent back the most detailed images yet of Charon, Pluto's giant moon. A vast system of canyons suggests a turbulent history
Psychedelic maps of Ceres could reveal secrets of its surface
1 October 2015
The surface of the dwarf planet appears in rainbow colours in new images that could give insight into its make-up
