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Pluto and its moon snuggle under a shared atmosphere

4 June 2014

Nitrogen from Pluto's atmosphere could be flowing over to its moon Charon – something we've never seen in a planet and moon before

Ultimate solar system could contain 60 Earths

30 May 2014

The laws of physics potentially allow one binary star system to contain a surprisingly large number of Earth-like planets, assuming there is enough matter to form the worlds

Smallest life-friendly exoplanet may be lit by auroras

17 April 2014

Found by NASA's Kepler telescope, the world is slightly bigger than Earth and orbits an active red star that could drive dazzling sky shows

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7 April 2014

All the latest on newscientist.com: where's Voyager? push-button orgasms, robot soldier, chromosomes grow up too soon, renewables go global and more

Gaggle of dwarf planets found by dark energy camera

2 April 2014

Designed to study distant galaxies, the world's largest digital camera is also uncovering faint, distant worlds on the outskirts of the solar system

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2 April 2014

Pluto gets another pal, more stem cell trouble, tubercular toms and more

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27 March 2014

All the latest on newscientist.com: metal-eating plants, Facebook and Oculus, face-shifting empathetic robot, stem cell "unethical" culture and more

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

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

Eccentric Earths: Weird planets where life might lurk

12 March 2014

We thought that the search for life on other planets meant finding Earth's twin. But now it looks like some bizarre worlds could still be fit for life