NASA traced a meteorite back to its original home in deep space
12 April 2019
An impact in the inner asteroid belt 22 million years ago was responsible for a meteorite shower over Turkey in 2015
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Found 275 results for dwarf planet
Earth may be partly made of rocks from elsewhere in the galaxy
14 March 2019
We’ve only seen one interstellar object, a rock called ‘Oumuamua that passed by in 2017, but they may be crucial to speeding up the planet-building process
A Place That Exists Only in Moonlight review: Sublime raid on infinity
13 February 2019
Katie Paterson's biggest art show yet gives gallery-goers a tantalising taste of space and time at a cosmic scale
This stunning map shows why everyone is fighting over the Arctic
30 January 2019
The environmentally damaging melting of polar ice is also exposing minerals, archaeological wonders and even ice volcanoes and there's a race to get to them
Palaeontologists behaving badly, and other bitter feuds in science
18 December 2018
What killed the dinosaurs? Does string theory count as science? Is Pluto a planet? Get embroiled in five explosive debates that have put researchers at each others' throats
Super-Earth spotted hiding in plain sight around neighbouring star
21 November 2018
After years of searching, a planet several times larger than Earth has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star – the closest star to Earth after the Alpha Centauri system
Two new rogue planets that do not orbit stars have been discovered
9 November 2018
Astronmers have found two new planets that don't have stars. They are incredibly difficult to spot, but there may be more of them in the Milky Way than stars
Mystery cold spot on Jupiter's moon Europa could be 'almost anything'
3 September 2018
The first full temperature map of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has revealed one spot that seems colder than anywhere else on the surface - but we have no clue why
Forgotten giants: Why the time is ripe to revisit Uranus and Neptune
25 July 2018
A fleeting glimpse of the ice giants 30 years ago hinted at very weird science that could tell us a lot about exoplanets. Now we have a rare chance to go back
Why weird star systems are where we'll find alien life
18 July 2018
In the hunt for life beyond Earth, we've been looking for planets and stars like our own. But that is flawed – and a new plan promises answers in our lifetimes
