
Astrobiology: The hunt for alien life
4 May 2011
Powerful telescopes, clever astronomy and trips to some of Earth's most extreme and remote places are helping identify the most promising places to start

4 May 2011
Powerful telescopes, clever astronomy and trips to some of Earth's most extreme and remote places are helping identify the most promising places to start

2 February 2011
Eighty per cent of the total matter in the cosmos is invisible to conventional telescopes. But if we can't see it, how can we be so sure it's there?