Well, that's something boffins haven't seen before: A strange alien streaks around Jupiter
PicWe know this sounds like a tall tail but...
22 May 2020
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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
VidCome 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
VideoTemperatures 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
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
We're not trying to be rude here but... there's an ice giant stripping down, emitting gas as it orbits a hot white dwarf
Sighting suggests future of our own Solar System
04 Dec 2019
Boffins hand in their homework on Voyager 2's first readings from beyond Solar System
Probe predicted to outlive Earth on five-billion-year galactic trip
05 Nov 2019
Move over Ceres! There's a new, smaller dwarf planet in town called Hygiea
PICSpherical shape kicks asteroid into new role
28 Oct 2019
Poor old Jupiter has had a rough childhood after getting a massive hit from a mega-Earth
Jumpin' Jupiter smash, it's a gas, gas, gas
15 Aug 2019
Boffins find asteroid with the shortest solar year of any space rock in our Solar System
Kilometre-sized chunk of rock that was missed for decades
09 Jul 2019
Look, we've tried, but we just can't write this headline without saying boffins have probed Uranus's cold ring
Cluster of rock and ice a sweltering 77K, we're told
21 Jun 2019
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