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
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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
PIC Spherical 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
Thanks to the NASA InSight probe (and British tools), you can now listen to the sound of a Martian earthquake
Video Astroboffins rejoice over tiny rumblings underground
24 Apr 2019
There are pictures all over the internet of a big dark spot on Uranu... Oh no, wait, it's Neptune
Astroboffins find and probe a new planetary wonder
26 Mar 2019
Boffins discover new dust clouds in the Solar System, Mercury has a surprisingly filthy ring
Venus also turns up a number of undiscovered orbital partners
13 Mar 2019
Today's good news is that whoever has to clean up Solar System will have an easy job: Lack of small debris in Kuiper belt
None of that tiny space rubble to sweep away, judging by snaps of Pluto's acne spots
01 Mar 2019
Spooky! Solar System's Planet NINE could be discovered in the next NINE years (plus one to six), say astroboffins
Where is that elusive super-Earth hiding?
28 Feb 2019
Japanese astronomers find tiniest Kuiper Belt object yet – using cheap 'scopes and off-the-shelf CMOS cameras
Boffinry on a shoestring finds icy chunk that's just 1.3km across
30 Jan 2019
Friday fun fact: If Stegosauruses had space telescopes, they wouldn't have seen any rings around Saturn
Bet you were expecting a rude ring pun here? Well, not today
18 Jan 2019
Calm your conspiracy theories, latest glimpse reveals Planet Nine may just be a pipe dream
Dodgy outer orbits all down to asteroids and gravity
05 Jun 2018
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