Space
Distant dwarf planet called ‘The Goblin’ could point to Planet X
There is a 300-kilometre-wide ice world in the far reaches of the Solar System - and its orbit is consistent with the presence of the hypothetical Planet X
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Environment
Don’t miss: Darwinian premiere, what’s really real and sun science
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10 mysteries of the universe: Is our solar system normal?
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Earth
NASA’s deep-space mission to a $10 quintillion all-metal world
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Environment
Rock layers show our sun has been in same cycle for 700 million years
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is on its way to the sun, via Venus
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Forgotten giants: Why the time is ripe to revisit Uranus and Neptune
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Physics
The sun shrinks and grows again by 2 kilometres every 11 years
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Space
Why weird star systems are where we’ll find alien life
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Passing star may have disturbed the solar system billions of years ago
The outer solar system hosts a number of small bodies in mixed up orbits – and they may have been scattered there by a passing star
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Space
We’ve found 12 new moons orbiting Jupiter – and one is probably doomed
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Tornadoes on the sun could blast hot plasma towards Earth
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Interstellar visitor ‘Oumuamua may be a comet, not an asteroid
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Space
The New Horizons probe is awake and ready for its next flyby
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