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Bright spots on Ceres could be water volcanoes
18 March 2015
Images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft show that a mysterious bright spot on dwarf planet Ceres could be a plume of water spurting from a deep, icy crater
Race to find the first exomoon heats up
17 March 2015
Speedier ways to search for moons outside the solar system are good news for alien hunters: these would be some of the best places to look for life
NASA's Dawn becomes first probe to orbit dwarf planet
6 March 2015
From its vantage point around one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, Dawn could unlock a time capsule from the formation of our solar system
Dawn spacecraft set for first visit to a dwarf planet
3 March 2015
The asteroid-hopping spacecraft will arrive at Ceres on Friday, making it the first to visit a dwarf planet and the first to visit two different worlds
Ancient planets are almost as old as the universe
28 January 2015
The oldest rocky planets yet are 11.2 billion years old, just a little younger than the universe – meaning the galaxy made an early start on planet building
Ancient planets are almost as old as the universe
27 January 2015
The oldest rocky planets yet are 11.2 billion years old, just a little younger than the universe – meaning the galaxy made an early start on planet building
Brave new world-hunters spot exoplanets on the cheap
7 January 2015
You don't need a multi-million-dollar budget to find alien worlds – off-the-shelf scopes rigged together can spot our cosmic neighbours too
Star's flying visit could fling comets at Earth
17 December 2014
It might not happen for a quarter of a million years, but a nearby star coming closer to the sun could send planetary remnants hurtling to Earth
2015 preview: Pluto gets ready for its first close-up
16 December 2014
Our current best snapshot of Pluto is just a handful of pixels captured by the Hubble Space Telescope – that should change when New Horizons flies by
