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
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
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
24 February 2016
Astronomers are scrambling for unusual ways to find the proposed ninth planet hiding in the outer reaches of the solar system
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
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
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
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
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
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
