New Horizons discovery raises solar wind riddle around Pluto
14 September 2016
The spacecraft’s observations of the dwarf planet’s atmosphere have raised questions over existing models of the solar wind
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Mysterious signal unlikely to be aliens after SETI draws a blank
30 August 2016
Radio telescopes across the world are swinging toward an intriguing signal that could point toward an intelligent extraterrestrial civilisation, but have come up empty
Mysterious SETI signal sends alien-hunting telescopes scrambling
29 August 2016
An intriguing radio spike spotted last year could point toward an intelligent extraterrestrial civilisation, but follow-up observations so far have come up empty
Proxima b’s star could be blasting away the planet’s atmosphere
26 August 2016
We’ve just found a potentially habitable exoplanet nearby, but monthly violent outbursts from the star Proxima Centauri could be bad news for life
If Earth-like planet Proxima b has life, what might it be like?
24 August 2016
Author Stephen Baxter wonders if the newly discovered Proxima b could resemble Per Ardua, the life-bearing world he imagined around the same nearby star
Proxima b: Earth-like planet spotted just 4 light years away
24 August 2016
A planet just 30 per cent more massive than Earth orbits in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, which is just 4.25 light years away. How Earth-like is it really?
Mystery object in weird orbit beyond Neptune cannot be explained
10 August 2016
A new-found object orbiting at extreme angles to the planets hints at new puzzle in the outer solar system - in addition to Planet Nine
Old planets always get too hot or cold for life in the end
27 July 2016
Searching for alien life on planets orbiting older stars may be fruitless - they nearly always lose their liquid water with time
Missing craters on Ceres may have been smoothed by a mud facial
26 July 2016
Ceres has surprisingly few large craters for a dwarf planet located in an asteroid belt, but its muddy composition could have wiped away the biggest impacts
Five incredible things we know about Pluto since 2015’s fly-by
14 July 2016
New Horizons buzzed by Pluto and its moons last July, giving us a front-row seat to see icy peaks, towering atmospheric haze, a kilometres-deep canyon and more
