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Last days of Earth: Life in 7 billion years AD

Earth won't always be a blue marble. What kind of animals will survive as mountains disappear, oceans spread and the planet fries – and where will they hide?

Features

Strange Manx comet is time capsule from the early solar system

Strange Manx comet is time capsule from the early solar system

News

Makemake shining brightly, with a small, faint blob just above it and a big arrow pointing to it

Space

Never-before-seen moon spotted around dwarf planet Makemake

News

Saturn's rings as seen from space

Space

Cassini gears up for final fiery plunge into Saturn's atmosphere

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Earth

How two tiny dots defy the history of life and the solar system

Features

The HAWC observatory near the Sierra Nevada volcano in Mexico

Space

Water telescope’s first sky map shows flickering black holes

News

Cassini circling Saturn

Space

Saturn probe Cassini hoovers up dust from distant stars

News

Front page of The Sun newspaper, headlined 'World's end'

Space

Ease up doom mongers, Planet Nine is not about to destroy us

Comment

Brown pockmarked and streaked surface of Phobos

Space

Mars moons may have formed after collision with Pluto-like world

News

The play <i>X</i> will have you clock-watching - but in a good way

Space

The play X will have you clock-watching - but in a good way

A thrilling new science-fiction play by Alistair McDowall carries Stewart Pringle a long way from home

CultureLab

Space

Planet Nine might be an exoplanet stolen by the sun

News

Space

Pluto may have tipped over when Charon tugged at its heart

News

Space

Long-term view of extreme cosmic burst challenges astronomers

News

Space

More evidence for Planet Nine as odd celestial alignment emerges

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