Space and planetary science – Page 6
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ResearchMystery around actinides deepens as researchers challenge study on heavy elements’ origin
Was a giant supernova rather than a neutron star collision responsible for creating the solar system’s actinides?
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NewsInternational Space Station experiments will search for key to soot-free flames
Microgravity research could help to burn fuels more cleanly and cut soot’s contribution to ill health and climate change
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ResearchViolent stellar collision near early solar system created actinides
A single neutron star merger produced almost all curium and plutonium that ever existed in the solar system
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ResearchWater found in asteroid dust collected by Japan's Hayabusa probe
Scientists calculate that half of the water on Earth could have been delivered by meteorites
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ResearchHelium hydride ion detected in space for the first time
Terahertz rotational spectroscopy identifies long-sought molecular bond in a nebula
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NewsLettuce could be used to grow drugs on Mars
Infecting plants with a bacterium that can genetically modify plants could be an answer to producing drugs on other planets
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ReviewExhibition: The Sun: Living With Our Star
A collection of objects and interactive experiences at the Science Museum explores our relationship with the sun
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NewsRover that will search for life on Mars named after Rosalind Franklin
Franklin rover will drill into red planet’s surface to look for evidence of life
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ResearchDNA sugar could form on icy asteroids and comets
Water–methanol ices bombarded with UV simulate conditions found on comets and asteroids
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FeatureScience in microgravity
How does gravity affect chemistry and biology? More than you might think – and you don’t have to visit space to find out, as Rachel Brazil discovers
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ResearchDwarf planet Ceres turns out to be extra-carbony
Asteroid belt’s largest object, thought to be a piece of rock, contains up to 20% carbon
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NewsBepiColombo satellites begin journey to Mercury
Mission hopes to shed some light on processes that may have shaped the early Earth
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PodcastLosing the Nobel Prize by Brian Keating – Book club
Physicist Brian Keating lost the Nobel Prize, then went on to re-evaluate its worth and examine how it could be improved
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ReviewLosing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science’s Highest Honor
Is the Nobel prize advancing or hampering scientific progress?
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OpinionHelen Sharman: 'I remember the last view I had of the Earth...'
The astronaut and chemist on mountains, science careers and the view from space
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OpinionHappy 60th birthday, Nasa
The space agency has come a long way - but its best may be yet to come
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CareersThe radio telescopes exploring our universe
How astrochemists are identifying molecules light-years away from Earth
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ReviewCatching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System
Revealing the mysteries of space, one mote of dust at a time
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NewsHow Nasa has contributed to chemistry
A look at six decades of science from the US space agency