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

Two specks of rock that formed when Earth was young suggest we've got to rethink everything from the story of the solar system to the origins of life

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

News

Long-term view of extreme cosmic burst challenges astronomers

Space

Long-term view of extreme cosmic burst challenges astronomers

News

A hypothetical view of Planet Nine

Space

More evidence for Planet Nine as odd celestial alignment emerges

Another celestial object has been found in a group with strangely similar orbits, implying they are shepherded by something - possibly a mysterious ninth planet

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

Space

Ceres surprises with water ice and colourful bright spots

News

Space

Pluto: A whole new world in 5 strange photos

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