12:00 31 December 2009  | 4 comments

The most popular space stories of the year include a visualisation of what it would look like to fall into a black hole

12:00 26 December 2009  | 44 comments

The Large Hadron Collider is primed to reveal the origin of mass – but an unexpected particle could grab the news

12:28 18 December 2009  | 49 comments

An experiment in a Minnesota mine has seen a tantalising glimpse of dark matter, the stuff thought to make up most of the universe's mass

12:13 14 December 2009  | 50 comments

The FERMI space telescope could beat the Large Hadron Collider to the first evidence of the Higgs boson, the particle thought to give others mass

13:28 03 December 2009  | 210 comments

The Planck spacecraft promises a feast of data and profound insights into the origin of the universe – but we mustn't be gluttons, says Stuart Clark

18:00 25 November 2009  | 232 comments

We could reach the stars if we built a black hole starship or a dark matter rocket – we've got the physics to do it

10:23 23 November 2009  | 43 comments

A ring of bright stars surrounds us, giving us some of our most familiar constellations. But where did it come from?

18:00 18 November 2009  | 73 comments

We're made of subatomic particles that can be in two places at once. So why can't we?

12:46 16 November 2009  | 114 comments

Over a thousand galaxy clusters are streaming in one direction across the sky – some think it's the first sign of a neighbouring universe

18:00 11 November 2009  | 176 comments

Forget the God particle - the rebooted Large Hadron Collider will give us much greater revelations