astrophysics

Why most scientists don’t want us to believe in life on Mars

1 August 2026 9:00 am

All institutional incentives impel towards overcaution, says Steven Benner, so it’s safer to insist that there’s no life than to suggest there is and be proved wrong

Cosmic cataclysm

1 August 2020 9:00 am

Alexander Masters speculates on how the universe will end