Proxima b: Earth-like planet spotted just 4 light years away
24 August 2016
A planet just 30 per cent more massive than Earth orbits in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, which is just 4.25 light years away. How Earth-like is it really?
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Dwarf planet Ceres looks like an asteroid but acts like a comet
9 December 2015
Shiny spots and minerals on Ceres suggest it may have been born in the outer solar system, and that our classification of asteroids and planets is wrong
Neptune's sudden jolt could explain weird ring in Kuiper belt
29 July 2015
A band of strangely tight-knit icy objects in the Kuiper belt has defied explanation. Now a simulation rewinding the solar system to its babyhood has an answer
Dwarf planet Ceres might have right stuff for life
25 March 2015
NASA hopes Dawn mission can answer the big question: could life lurk in icy volcanoes on Ceres, the asteroid belt's biggest resident?
Race to find the first exomoon heats up
17 March 2015
Speedier ways to search for moons outside the solar system are good news for alien hunters: these would be some of the best places to look for life
Ancient planets are almost as old as the universe
28 January 2015
The oldest rocky planets yet are 11.2 billion years old, just a little younger than the universe – meaning the galaxy made an early start on planet building
Brave new world-hunters spot exoplanets on the cheap
7 January 2015
You don't need a multi-million-dollar budget to find alien worlds – off-the-shelf scopes rigged together can spot our cosmic neighbours too
Philae lander sleeps but Rosetta mission lives on
18 November 2014
The European Space Agency has announced that Philae has detected organic molecules on comet 67P – and there are many more scientific discoveries to come
Dwarf planet Eris may reveal quantum gravity
23 January 2013
The Pluto-killer is at it again: studies of the small world and its moon may also knock down popular theories of dark matter and dark energy
Corpse stars could nurture life on alien planets
15 August 2012
Light from white dwarfs might be just right to support photosynthesis and undamaged DNA, smashing assumptions about where life might arise in the galaxy
