NASA is sending two small hand-luggage suitcase-sized spacecraft into the void to study binary asteroids
Janus mission seeks solution to orbiting space rocks in the Solar System
12 Sep 2020
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Shine on you crazy diamond: We don't know who needs to hear it but NASA's explained the weird shape of the Bennu asteroid
Something that doesn't involve viruses, politics and wildfires
10 Sep 2020
The results are in: Science says the Solar System's magnetic heliosphere looks like a deflated croissant
Pic Or maybe a spleen? Stomach? Snot bubble? You decide
06 Aug 2020
If you think you've got problems, pal, spare a thought for these boffins baffled by 'oddball' meteorites
Chondritic and achondritic? Back to the drawing board, then
27 Jul 2020
'First ever' snap emerges of something vaguely resembling our solar system 300 ly away. We'll take 10 tickets
Pic and video Gassy giants make Jupiter look like an absolute tiddler
23 Jul 2020
The volcanoes on Venus aren't dead, say astroboffins, they're merely resting, pining for the planet's lava fjords
We may not know the answer until the 2030s, though
21 Jul 2020
If the Solar System's 'Planet Nine' is actually a small black hole, here's how we could detect it... wait, what?
There may be a small black hole on the edge of our Solar System? 2020, please stop
10 Jul 2020
Well, that's something boffins haven't seen before: A strange alien streaks around Jupiter
Pic We know this sounds like a tall tail but...
22 May 2020
Meteorite's tiny secrets reveal Solar System's sodium-rich, alkaline liquid past – a clue to formation of life
Oh OK, so now we know who to blame for all this mess on Earth
13 May 2020
There's a world out there with a hexagon vortex over its pole packed with hydrocarbon ice crystals. That planet is Saturn
Yet again, science reality is better than science fiction
11 May 2020
Where were you in drought season? Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov dumped 230 million litres of water as it whizzed through Solar System
Vid Come shine, come rain
28 Apr 2020
Nineteen mysterious invaders from another Solar System spotted hanging around the outside edge of ours
Plus astroboffins confirm 'masked' asteroid heading Earthwards
24 Apr 2020
Boffins examine interstellar comet Borisov to find out what its home was like. Pretty unpleasant, it seems
No wonder it came all the way over to our Solar System
21 Apr 2020
Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, surely has no frozen water, right? Guess again: Solar winds form ice
Video Temperatures can soar over 400C on the rocky world, and yet...
17 Mar 2020
In case you want to flee this wretched Earth, 139 minor planets were spotted at the outer reaches of our Solar System. Just an FYI...
Too bad they are likely uninhabitable
13 Mar 2020
Galileo got it wrong – official: Jupiter actually wet, not super-dry: 'No one would have guessed that water might be so variable across the planet'
The 1990s spacecraft, that is
20 Feb 2020
Raw sunlight is going to cause our asteroid belt to spin itself to death by YORPing – but not for another six billion years
The cosmic ballet goes on...
11 Feb 2020
Geoboffins find the oldest matter on Earth: Ancient stardust created before the Solar System formed
That's way, way, way older than the dust off your oldest PC
14 Jan 2020
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