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Pluto gives up its icy secrets as New Horizons data pours in

Pluto gives up its icy secrets as New Horizons data pours in

17 March 2016

Eight months after NASA's New Horizons spacecraft's historic fly-by of Pluto, new data reveals startling links between Pluto, Charon, their four smaller satellites, and the space environment that surrounds them


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The Oort cloud surrounds our solar system – why can't we see it?

16 March 2016

It's a giant sphere of a trillion rocks encircling us that occasionally sends comets slinging our way. That's a convincing story – but we'd love some direct evidence


Exclusive photos: Clouds seen on Pluto for first time

Exclusive photos: Clouds seen on Pluto for first time

4 March 2016

We knew the dwarf planet had weather systems, but here's the first evidence from the New Horizons probe of clouds in Pluto's atmosphere


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Planet Nine hunters enlist big bang telescopes and Saturn probe

24 February 2016

Astronomers are scrambling for unusual ways to find the proposed ninth planet hiding in the outer reaches of the solar system


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Barks and _ebooks: why we love robo Twitter accounts

24 February 2016

The burgeoning number of Twitter bots shows how much we need to connect to each other - and shines a light on lives unlike our own


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How Do You Find an Exoplanet? An insider account gives top tips

3 February 2016

John Asher Johnson, who found the smallest exoplanet to date, proves an invaluable guide in his book about one of science's hottest fields


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Galactic GPS: How dead stars will guide us in deep space

3 February 2016

Plotting a course through outer space is tricky, but stellar corpses called pulsars are pointing the way to a new form of celestial navigation


Alan Stern, New Horizons, Pluto

After Pluto: Alan Stern’s cosmic ambitions won’t be dwarfed

26 January 2016

With Pluto now in the bag, space supremo Alan Stern discusses the space race, crowdsourcing a Mars map, and why he's grumpy about how to define a planet


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Lonely exoplanet orbits its star at greatest distance yet seen

26 January 2016

A closer look at the motions of a small star and a misfit planet shows the two are linked by gravity - and can teach us about planets and stars alike


Galaxy-mapping Gaia space telescope gets an eye test from Pluto

Galaxy-mapping Gaia space telescope gets an eye test from Pluto

22 January 2016

The European Space Agency craft designed to map a billion stars in the Milky Way has also been keeping an eye out for everyone's favourite dwarf planet


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