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Planets near dangerous stars could shield alien life under smog

4 December 2017

Red and white dwarfs make nasty neighbours due to spurts of deadly radiation, but alien life could still form on planets nearby if shielded by smog or oceans

Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

10 May 2017

Human clones, a colony on Mars, alien contact... what world-changing breakthroughs will come in the next decade? We asked the experts – with some surprising results

How the sun abducted dwarf planets from an alien solar system

8 June 2016

The weird orbits of some bodies in the outer solar system reveal they are booty from an interstellar smash and grab raid, says astronomer Simon Portegies Zwart

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

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