Rather randomly I’ve just returned from a theatre tour where my science show featured yeast in one of the experiments, so when research about yeast surviving Martian conditions crossed my

Mars is a planet of mystery! Its surface today is cold and dry, yet evidence suggests it was once home to flowing water. Most of the planet’s remaining ice sits

White dwarfs are stellar corpses, the slowly cooling remnants of stars that ran out of fuel billions of years ago. Our Sun will eventually share this fate, collapsing into a

It rains on the Sun! Although not in any way we’d recognise from Earth. In the Sun’s corona, the superheated atmosphere that extends millions of kilometres above its visible surface,