Pack your bags! Astroboffins spot 24 'superhabitable' exoplanets better than Earth at supporting complex life
Just a short 100 or more light years away
06 Oct 2020
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FYI: Mind how you go. We're more or less oblivious to 75% of junk in geosynchronous orbits around Earth
What a load of rubbish
27 Sep 2020
Everything's falling apart. The Moon is slowly rusting up – and it's probably Earth's fault
We're not talking about the programming language, either
03 Sep 2020
We're not all about rockets, says NASA: Balloon tech is good enough for economical star scanning
Ahem, hey, any chance LOHAN can hitch a ride?
25 Jul 2020
We've heard of littering but this is ridiculous: Asteroid dumps up to 50 quadrillion kg of space dirt on Earth, Moon
Sadly, missing all of us by 800 million years
22 Jul 2020
Looking for a home off-world? Take your pick: Astroboffins estimate there are nearly 6bn Earth-likes in the Milky Way
Getting to them is, however, quite another kettle of fish
17 Jun 2020
Machine learning helps geoboffins spot huge beds of hot rocks 1,000km across deep below Earth's surface
Large structures were detected as anomalies in seismic waves processed by an algorithm
15 Jun 2020
Worried about the magnetic North Pole sprinting towards Russia? Don't be, boffins say, it'll be back sooner or later
Satellite data shows two huge iron blobs tussling under the surface
15 May 2020
Russia admits, yup, the Americans are right: One of our rocket's tanks just disintegrated in Earth's orbit
Good luck fishing all that out of the sky
12 May 2020
Quick Q: Er, why is the Moon emitting carbon? And does this mean it wasn't formed from Theia hitting Earth?
Decades-old theory may require a rethink thanks to Japanese probe
07 May 2020
Kepler telescope is dead but the data lives on: Earth-sized habitable zone planet found after boffins check for errors
300 light years away but hey, why not?
16 Apr 2020
Academic showdown as boffins biff-baff over when Version 1.0 of Earth's magnetic core was released
'They have not reported an objective analysis' – now that's a zinger
08 Apr 2020
Finally, that cruel dust world Mars proves useful: Helping scientists understand Earth's radio-scrambling plasma
Red Planet's sporadic E layers shed light on our world's interference
04 Feb 2020
Boffins find proof that yes, Carl Sagan and Joni Mitchell were right, we really are all made up of star stuff
Sprinkles from extrasolar red giants found here on Earth
11 Dec 2019
Boffins believe it was volcanoes, not just life, that made Earth what it is today – oxygen rich
Photosynthesis alone ain't going to cut it as an explanation
03 Dec 2019
Your FREE end-of-the-world guide: What happens when a sun like ours runs out of fuel
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
15 May 2019
Guess what shrinks when it gets cold and then you shake it around a little? The Moon. We're talking about the Moon
What did you think we meant?
14 May 2019
Earth's noggin took quite a clockin' back in the day: Now a second meteorite crater spotted under Greenland ice
Pics, video Huge hole hints at home world taking a pounding
12 Feb 2019
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