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Strange 1,500km-long cloud spotted on Mars
11-1-2018 |
18
ESA's Mars Express orbiter has photographed a long white cloud lingering eerily over the planet's surface.
NASA's Kepler telescope is officially dead
10-31-2018 | 16
The ground-breaking space telescope that discovered more than 2,600 exoplanets has finally run out of fuel.
BepiColombo probe is on its way to Mercury
VIDEO 10-20-2018 | 4
The ambitious new mission will see two satellites placed in to orbit around the closest planet to the Sun.
Bizarre solar system is baffling astronomers
10-16-2018 | 6
Four gargantuan planets have been observed orbiting a relatively young star approximately 500 light years away.
Neptune-sized extrasolar moon discovered
10-4-2018 | 2
Astronomers have found what is thought to be the first confirmed moon in orbit around an extrasolar world.
New dwarf planet 'The Goblin' discovered
10-2-2018 | 8
The important new find also hints at the presence of another, much larger planet in the outer solar system.
Elon Musk reveals image of 'Mars Base Alpha'
9-25-2018 | 9
The ever-ambitious entrepreneur is aiming to construct a human colony on the Red Planet by as early as 2028.
Planet-hunting probe finds two new candidates
9-23-2018 | 0
A mere two months after beginning operations, NASA's TESS spacecraft has found two new extrasolar worlds.
Dickinsonia is world's oldest known animal
9-21-2018 | 12
A new study has cast further light on a mystery fossil that scientists say is as 'strange as life on another planet'.
Astronomers discover real-life planet Vulcan
9-20-2018 | 3
The new planet is located in the same star system as Spock's home world in the 'Star Trek' universe.
Should Pluto be classed as a planet again ?
9-9-2018 | 30
Researchers have called into question the reasoning behind Pluto's demotion from planet to dwarf planet.
Earth may have several orbiting 'mini-moons'
8-18-2018 | 6
Scientists have discovered that the Moon may not be the only natural satellite in orbit around our planet.
Universe may be teeming with water-worlds
8-18-2018 | 7
Scientists have determined that a significant percentage of planets in our galaxy may be covered in water.
Planet is so hot that even metal evaporates
8-16-2018 | 5
The extrasolar planet known as Kelt-9b is so hot that its atmosphere contains vaporized iron and titanium.
Rogue planet detected outside our solar system
8-4-2018 | 12
The huge object is 12.7 times the mass of Jupiter and has a magnetic field 200 times more powerful.
'Super-Earth' most likely candidate for life
8-2-2018 | 60
A large Earth-like world has emerged as the most likely place to look for life outside of our solar system.
New planet-hunting telescope begins search
VIDEO 7-29-2018 | 6
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is now on the hunt for habitable extrasolar worlds.
Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity reaches 170,000ft
VIDEO 7-27-2018 | 3
The third rocket-powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo provided its pilots with a spectacular view of our planet.
Lake of liquid water discovered on Mars
VIDEO 7-25-2018 | 10
Scientists believe that they have identified a body of water situated beneath the planet's south polar ice cap.
Twelve new moons discovered around Jupiter
7-17-2018 | 10
The discovery means that the gas giant has a total of 79 moons - more than any other planet in the solar system.
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