British Science Week is a ten-day celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths that takes place between 6-15 March 2026. The 30 minute Live Lesson is available to watch now on this page.

New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of years.

Billions of light years away in a remote part of the universe, two neutron stars – the ultradense remnants of dead stars – collided. The catastropic cosmic event sent light and particles, including a ...

Hosted by Grace Webb and ' The Rapping Science Teacher' Matt Green, in the lesson we'll investigate light energy and learn ...

The Milky Way nebula RCW 36 resembles a stunning cosmic bird of prey in an incredible Very Large Telescope image.

Look up on a clear night and you'll see the streaks of our new space age. What you don't see is the growing fallout for the atmosphere that keeps us alive.

A unique technique allowed astronomers to see the early universe as a "sea of light" and explore the effects of gravity and ...

Asteroids with tiny moons may be quietly trading material across space. Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed faint ...

For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by its gravity. New simulations reveal the answer: our galaxy sits in a ...

About 15% of asteroids near Earth have small moons orbiting them, making binary asteroid systems common in our cosmic ...

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and planets are formed.

CWISE J1249+36, a low-mass runaway star, is traveling at an extraordinary speed that could propel it out of the Milky Way.