Pluto may have hosted lakes and rivers of liquid nitrogen
21 March 2016
Studying how the dwarf planet's climate changed over time shows it once had the right conditions for liquid to flow on its surface - and may still have buried lakes today
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Pluto gives up its icy secrets as New Horizons data pours in
17 March 2016
Eight months after NASA's New Horizons spacecraft's historic fly-by of Pluto, new data reveals startling links between Pluto, Charon, their four smaller satellites, and the space environment that surrounds them
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
Exclusive photos: Clouds seen on Pluto for first time
4 March 2016
We knew the dwarf planet had weather systems, but here's the first evidence from the New Horizons probe of clouds in Pluto's atmosphere
Planet Nine hunters enlist big bang telescopes and Saturn probe
24 February 2016
Astronomers are scrambling for unusual ways to find the proposed ninth planet hiding in the outer reaches of the solar system
Barks and _ebooks: why we love robo Twitter accounts
24 February 2016
The burgeoning number of Twitter bots shows how much we need to connect to each other - and shines a light on lives unlike our own
How Do You Find an Exoplanet? An insider account gives top tips
3 February 2016
John Asher Johnson, who found the smallest exoplanet to date, proves an invaluable guide in his book about one of science's hottest fields
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
After Pluto: Alan Stern’s cosmic ambitions won’t be dwarfed
26 January 2016
With Pluto now in the bag, space supremo Alan Stern discusses the space race, crowdsourcing a Mars map, and why he's grumpy about how to define a planet
Lonely exoplanet orbits its star at greatest distance yet seen
26 January 2016
A closer look at the motions of a small star and a misfit planet shows the two are linked by gravity - and can teach us about planets and stars alike
