By Jupiter! How the solar system’s giant made Earth ripe for life
22 May 2019
An audacious mission circling Jupiter’s poles is probing the planet’s deepest mysteries - including how it shaped our solar system and paved the way for our existence
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Found 113 results for dwarf planet
This stunning map shows why everyone is fighting over the Arctic
30 January 2019
The environmentally damaging melting of polar ice is also exposing minerals, archaeological wonders and even ice volcanoes and there's a race to get to them
Palaeontologists behaving badly, and other bitter feuds in science
18 December 2018
What killed the dinosaurs? Does string theory count as science? Is Pluto a planet? Get embroiled in five explosive debates that have put researchers at each others' throats
Forgotten giants: Why the time is ripe to revisit Uranus and Neptune
25 July 2018
A fleeting glimpse of the ice giants 30 years ago hinted at very weird science that could tell us a lot about exoplanets. Now we have a rare chance to go back
Why weird star systems are where we'll find alien life
18 July 2018
In the hunt for life beyond Earth, we've been looking for planets and stars like our own. But that is flawed – and a new plan promises answers in our lifetimes
Interstellar: The bizarre visitor from a far-off solar system
31 January 2018
First seen in October 2017, the space rock 'Oumuamua looks like a skyscraper tumbling through space – and challenges our ideas of how planetary systems form
Planet X: We are closing in on the solar system's new occupant
13 December 2017
Evidence for a new body perhaps the size of Neptune way out in the shadows is building – but if there is a ninth planet, it’s unlike any we have seen
Nine probes reached the outer solar system: Where are they now?
12 September 2017
Besides Cassini, eight missions have passed the asteroid belt – and several are still broadcasting from the furthest solar system and beyond
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
