Hottest planet is hotter than some stars
19 January 2011
A newly confirmed planet is a scorching 3200 °C – its proximity to its host star is only partly to blame
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Rise of the robot astronomers
12 January 2011
Long nights spent peering into the cosmos are over, for humans at least. Artificial intelligence will take charge of the planet's greatest telescopes
Is first life-friendly exoplanet an 'eyeball'?
12 January 2011
One way that Gliese 581 g could host life is if it is a frozen world with a single, pupil-like ocean of liquid water
How to sort the dwarfs from the planets
5 January 2011
A newly discovered dearth of cosmic objects at a particular range of masses could provide a clean way to divide planets and brown dwarfs
Super-Earth's atmosphere analysed for first time
1 December 2010
A planet 6.5 times as massive as Earth called GJ 1214b has an atmosphere dominated by steam or cloudy haze, new observations suggest
Former 'tenth planet' may be smaller than Pluto
8 November 2010
Eris, a distant body that triggered the debate about what constitutes a planet, may actually be smaller than Pluto, according to new observations
First life-friendly exoplanet may not exist
13 October 2010
Two weeks after one team of astronomers announced finding the habitable planet Gliese 581 g, another team says it can find no evidence of the world in its data
Found: first rocky exoplanet that could host life
29 September 2010
A rocky body about three times as massive as Earth has been found in the cosy "habitable zone" around its star – the find suggests habitable planets are common
Prehistoric humans may have pushed climate change
7 July 2010
Humans were fiddling with climate thousands of years even before we started farming – if we had a hand in the extinction of woolly mammoths
Half-eaten dwarf planet reveals chemical secrets
30 June 2010
The half-digested remains of a dwarf planet could provide the best window yet into the chemical make-up of alien solar systems
