Planet diet helps white dwarfs stay young and trim
16 January 2008
Eating up a Jupiter-sized planet means an ageing star could look younger and become less massive, says a US researcher
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Wherever a planet can form, it will, say astronomers
10 January 2008
Astronomers have found an exoplanet where orbital calculations predicted one would be, suggesting planet formation is an efficient process
Planet collision could explain alien world's heat
9 January 2008
A colossal clash of planets may explain why an alien world 170 light years from Earth is piping hot
Moons like Earth's are few and far between
21 November 2007
Collisions between large rocky objects, such as the one that probably created our Moon, occur in very few solar systems, a study suggests
Dawn spacecraft launches to study giant asteroids
27 September 2007
The mission will use an advanced ion engine to reach two titans of the asteroid belt – Vesta and Ceres
Planet survives close call with searing red giant
12 September 2007
A planet that was singed when its host star swelled into a red giant has lived to tell the tale – the Earth will probably not be so lucky
Uranus has no diamonds after all
12 July 2007
Contrary to previous suggestions, Uranus and Neptune do not boast diamonds – but white dwarf stars do, a new study suggests
Monster icebergs left deep scratch marks on seabed
27 June 2007
Icebergs nearly a kilometre tall once passed by the coast of Greenland, and left their marks for us to find
Pluto holds its own in the war of the moons
20 June 2007
Pluto isn't the biggest dwarf planet in the solar system, but it does have more moons
Astronomers pin down mass of former 'tenth planet'
14 June 2007
By observing the orbit of its tiny moon, astronomers have calculated the mass of the icy world Eris – it is 27% heftier than Pluto
