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10 May 2017
Human clones, a colony on Mars, alien contact... what world-changing breakthroughs will come in the next decade? We asked the experts – with some surprising results

10 May 2017
Human clones, a colony on Mars, alien contact... what world-changing breakthroughs will come in the next decade? We asked the experts – with some surprising results

26 April 2017
A newly found exoplanet is in the middle of its star's habitable zone and its atmosphere might have biomolecules we could detect

19 April 2017
New observations of an object beyond Neptune show it could be big enough to be considered a world in the same class as Pluto and Ceres

19 April 2017
The announcement of a new habitable, “Earth-like” planet made us wonder – where should we look first?

6 April 2017
An exoplanet just 1.4 times the size of Earth has an atmosphere containing water and methane, new observations show

5 April 2017
An odd-looking bird named the “new finch” is actually the planet’s biggest canary – and it lives with other largest and smallest species on an isolated island

22 March 2017
Plus: an ocean cruise that circles the globe in a day, shining a light on the blackest of blacks, a dwarf planet made of muesli, and speed-reading the lastest John Scalzi novel.

9 March 2017
The third-largest dwarf planet has a small satellite, meaning every object bigger than 1000 kilometres across in the outer solar system has a moon of its own

1 March 2017
An engaging exhibition and its accompanying book proves that exploring our relationship with Earth's most dynamic geology doesn't need to be sensationalist

16 February 2017
The first evidence of organic material on Ceres opens the door to the possibility that other asteroids harbour precursors to primitive life