If Tuesday’s cute little newest cat ever discovered wasn’t geekily gorgeous enough for you, how about the youngest planet we’ve ever seen. Just look at its chubby cheeks! Who’s. beautiful bubba?

Neutrinos are fascinating particles. More than a trillion a second flood through your body, but science has only ever caught a sliver of them. Well now a sphere holding 20,000 tonnes of liquid, buried under southern China, has out-measured every previous experiment combined. It is one of physics’ oldest puzzles. Do these ghosts weigh anything, and how would we ever find out?

A massive weekend for a massive telescope, a chance to shine a light on the stuff that doesn’t shine, & an old beauty reminds us why she’s so cool with possibly the most awesome images I’ve ever seen.

Sneaky Russian Luch satellite blows apart in "safe" graveyard orbit. If even retirement homes explode, our orbital future gets shaky. Wake-up call?

Brutal cuts to NASA’s funding – including 47% slashed from its science budget and the abrupt end of a vital alliance to find life on Mars – point to a betrayal of science and global cooperation.

Scientists discover asteroid on potential collision course to Earth - and the doomsday gears start turning.

It's the gold-medal geekery of October - the Nobel Prizes and (almost as) prestigious Australian Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science.