Microbial life might drift in the atmospheres of failed stars
7 October 2019
Brown dwarfs are too large to be planets and too small to be stars, but they have gaseous atmospheres that may have all the ingredients needed for life
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Found 317 results for dwarf planet
We could find alien life on exoplanets by looking for its glow
20 August 2019
Most of the closest exoplanets we’ve found orbit stars that can release flares of dangerous UV light, but those very flares might force life to evolve to glow
How do you name a black hole? It is actually pretty complicated
12 April 2019
The first black hole ever directly imaged now has been nicknamed Pōwehi, but making the name official will take some time
NASA traced a meteorite back to its original home in deep space
12 April 2019
An impact in the inner asteroid belt 22 million years ago was responsible for a meteorite shower over Turkey in 2015
You can help name the largest unnamed world in the solar system
9 April 2019
A dwarf planet known only as 2007 OR10 is about to get a proper name after more than a decade - and the public can help decide what we call it
A dead planet is orbiting a dead sun in a distant dead solar system
4 April 2019
A piece of a planet that survived the death of its star has been spotted orbiting the stellar corpse. Planets in our solar system may look similar when the sun dies
Earth may be partly made of rocks from elsewhere in the galaxy
14 March 2019
We’ve only seen one interstellar object, a rock called ‘Oumuamua that passed by in 2017, but they may be crucial to speeding up the planet-building process
10 year challenge: How science and the world have changed
18 January 2019
The last 10 years have seen amazing advances in science and technology – and stark damage to the world we live in. Like a lot of people on social media we thought we'd take a look back at the last ten years in science and 91av
NASA probe will hurtle past the most distant object we’ve ever visited
22 December 2018
In 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft whizzed past Pluto. Now it is about to arrive at Ultima Thule, a tiny space rock 6.6 billion kilometres away from Earth
2018’s weirdest stories: Friendly horses, toddler robots and moonmoons
20 December 2018
91av has covered some strange scientific findings this year. Here is our round-up of the weirdest and wackiest
