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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

Astronomers have previously looked for a satellite orbiting the Kuiper belt object and found nothing, so were surprised when one turned up

News

Saturn's rings as seen from space

Space

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

News

solar system

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

CultureLab

The Pleiades star cluster: it might have been the sun's nursery

Space

Planet Nine might be an exoplanet stolen by the sun

News

Pluto showing heart-shaped

Space

Pluto may have tipped over when Charon tugged at its heart

The iconic heart-shaped feature on Pluto is so dense that it could have led to the entire dwarf planet swivelling over time

News

Space

Long-term view of extreme cosmic burst challenges astronomers

News

Space

More evidence for Planet Nine as odd celestial alignment emerges

News

Space

Bubbling ocean on Saturn’s moon could explain vanishing island

News

Space

Moon’s lack of water down to ancient shift in its spin axis

News

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