Your explosive guide to the end of the universe
1 June 2016
Our sun will swell, our galaxy will collide with its neighbour and the universe could suddenly be swallowed by a vacuum bubble
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Found 116 results for dwarf planet
Pluto: A whole new world in 5 strange photos
22 March 2016
Floating mountains, ice volcanoes and a churning plain of nitrogen sludge – pin-sharp pictures beamed back from Pluto are changing how we think planets work
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
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
Solar system mysteries: Is there a planet X?
20 January 2016
Wobbles in the orbit of two distant dwarf planets are reviving the idea of a planet hidden in our outer solar system. Two new discoveries could fit the bill
Beyond Pluto: New Horizons probe aims for another unseen world
18 November 2015
As Earthlings gawp at the dwarf planet, NASA's plucky probe is gearing up for one last mission: a close encounter that could rewrite solar system history
Journeys of a lifetime: How your bones began in a star's core
11 November 2015
Find out how 13-billion-year-old calcium atoms forged in the stars got to be part of your bones – and how you may one day become stardust again
Journeys of a lifetime: Events in a far galaxy tweak your DNA
11 November 2015
Billions of years ago, an iron nucleus forged in another galaxy was flung into space at close to the speed of light – headed for your cells
Is food really better from the farm gate than supermarket shelf?
14 October 2015
Some say the way we produce and process food making it less nourishing than in our grandparents' day. Â鶹´«Ã½ looks at the facts
5 alien worlds weirder than any we have found so far
16 September 2015
From party planets to egg worlds, astronomers are hunting exoplanets even more bizarre than the ones they have spotted already
