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Planets like Tatooine may actually be common
Mar 16, 2020Planets with two suns like Luke Skywalker's homeworld may be as common as planets orbiting a solitary star.
139 new 'minor planets' found beyond Neptune
Mar 13, 2020Scientists have announced the discovery of 139 new objects situated in the far reaches of our solar system.
Extreme exoplanet sees rains of molten iron
VIDEO Mar 11, 2020Scientists have identified an extrasolar planet with some of the most hostile surface conditions ever seen.
11 million Brazilians believe that the Earth is flat
Mar 6, 2020A surprisingly large number of people in Brazil subscribe to the idea that our planet is not what it seems.
Earth was a 'water world' 3 billion years ago
Mar 2, 2020Scientists now believe that the entire planet was covered in water and devoid of continents in the distant past.
Arrokoth rewrites theory of planet formation
Feb 17, 2020New Horizons' encounter with a Kuiper belt object has turned what we know of planet formation on its head.
NASA celebrates 30 years of the 'Pale Blue Dot'
VIDEO Feb 14, 2020This humbling image of our world taken from far away has been honored this week with a modern remaster.
Has life from Earth spread to distant worlds ?
Jan 29, 2020It is often suggested that alien life could have reached Earth on a comet, but what about the other way around ?
World's oldest material is older than the Earth
Jan 15, 2020Scientists have identified the oldest material ever to make it onto our planet - and it even predates the Sun.
ESA to launch space debris collector in 2025
Dec 9, 2019If successful, the mission will be the first ever to remove a piece of space junk from Earth's orbit.
Planet found orbiting white dwarf in world first
VIDEO Dec 5, 2019Astronomers have discovered a huge planet orbiting the burnt-out husk of a star that was once like the Sun.
Thousands of planets could orbit a black hole
Nov 26, 2019It turns out that planets could orbit a black hole in much the same way as our own planet orbits the Sun.
Should we deliberately 'infect' Mars ?
Oct 1, 2019A new paper has suggested that we may have no choice but to spread microorganisms to the Red Planet.
Life on Mars could be found 'within 2 years'
Sep 30, 2019NASA's chief scientist Dr Jim Green is optimistic that the next rovers to visit Mars will find evidence of alien life.
Planet Nine could be a miniature black hole
Sep 28, 2019The undiscovered theoretical planet in the outer reaches of our solar system may actually be a black hole.
33ft 'frozen dragon' pterosaur found in Canada
Sep 16, 2019Palaeontologists have identified one of the largest flying creatures ever to live on planet Earth.
Water vapor discovered on extrasolar planet
Sep 11, 2019Water vapor has been identified on what is being hailed as the most habitable exoplanet found to date.
Musk: 'Starship 2.0 could be twice as big'
Sep 4, 2019Elon Musk has hinted that SpaceX's next-generation interplanetary spacecraft could be absolutely huge.
Alien life forms could glow, say scientists
Aug 23, 2019It may be possible to detect signs of extraterrestrial life on a distant world by picking up its biofluorescence.
Elon Musk still wants to drop nukes on Mars
VIDEO Aug 17, 2019The SpaceX CEO has long held the belief that nuking the Red Planet could make it more habitable for humans.
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