Robotic planet-hunter bags its first exoplanets
26 March 2014
The Automated Planet Finder telescope has been working tirelessly day and night, seeking out alien worlds – and its haul of planets is just beginning
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Found 465 results for dwarf planet
New dwarf planet hints at giant world far beyond Pluto
26 March 2014
The orbit of a newly discovered dwarf planet could signal the existence of a rocky world, 10 times bigger than Earth, lurking in the solar system's fringes
Dwarf planet caught spitting inside asteroid belt
22 January 2014
The first direct detection of water vapour from Ceres hints that the tiny world has a layer of buried ice or perhaps even slushy volcanoes
Astrophile: Binary stars that form like fraternal twins
14 January 2014
Half of the sun-like stars in the galaxy are in binary pairs – we've just glimpsed into a stellar nursery to see how such pairs come into the universe
Most common exoplanets are weird 'mini-Neptunes'
7 January 2014
Planets more than twice Earth's size are likely to be more gassy or wetter than Earth, limiting the places where machine-savvy alien life could develop
Astrophile: Trio of dead stars could take on Einstein
5 January 2014
The first example of a three-star system containing only stellar corpses could be used to probe the nature of gravity
First exomoon glimpsed – 1800 light years from Earth
18 December 2013
A newly glimpsed pair of objects may be the first known moon outside of our solar system and its exoplanet, both far away from any star
Dwarf seahorses are stealth hunters of the oceans
26 November 2013
At just 2.5 centimetres long, one of the slowest moving animals in the oceans has a special trick for snapping up some of the fastest
Sunny fix would let defunct Kepler hunt planets again
7 November 2013
Recently given up for dead, NASA's Kepler space telescope might get a new lease of life that will broaden the planet-hunting king's view of the sky
Fake planets reveal distance to Earth's nearest twin
4 November 2013
Kepler, the king of planet-hunting telescopes, may be dead but a simulation says an Earth-like planet is just 12 light years away
