Two giant planets may cruise unseen beyond Pluto
11 June 2014
Planet X could have company – rocky bodies orbiting in weird clusters suggest that two monster planets hide in the outer reaches of the solar system
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NASA 'dream fund' selects submarine for Saturn moon
9 June 2014
A submarine on Titan, a greenhouse on the Red Planet, and a space cowboy hitching a ride to Pluto on a comet top NASA's wild wish list
Pluto and its moon snuggle under a shared atmosphere
6 June 2014
Nitrogen from Pluto's atmosphere could be flowing over to its moon Charon – something we've never seen in a planet and moon before
Ancient exoplanet may have the right stuff for life
5 June 2014
A possibly rocky world snared from another galaxy is thought to be 11.5 billion years old and may still be warm enough to be friendly to life
Smallest life-friendly exoplanet may be lit by auroras
17 April 2014
Found by NASA's Kepler telescope, the world is slightly bigger than Earth and orbits an active red star that could drive dazzling sky shows
Gaggle of dwarf planets found by dark energy camera
2 April 2014
Designed to study distant galaxies, the world's largest digital camera is also uncovering faint, distant worlds on the outskirts of the solar system
Robotic planet-hunter bags its first exoplanets
26 March 2014
The Automated Planet Finder telescope has been working tirelessly day and night, seeking out alien worlds – and its haul of planets is just beginning
New dwarf planet hints at giant world far beyond Pluto
26 March 2014
The orbit of a newly discovered dwarf planet could signal the existence of a rocky world, 10 times bigger than Earth, lurking in the solar system's fringes
Dwarf planet caught spitting inside asteroid belt
22 January 2014
The first direct detection of water vapour from Ceres hints that the tiny world has a layer of buried ice or perhaps even slushy volcanoes
Most common exoplanets are weird 'mini-Neptunes'
7 January 2014
Planets more than twice Earth's size are likely to be more gassy or wetter than Earth, limiting the places where machine-savvy alien life could develop
