Earth
Earth’s underwater dunes help explain Venus’s weird surface
Some of the properties of wind and dust on Venus may be similar to those of water and sediment at the bottom of our oceans
News
Life
The ethics issue: Should we colonise other planets?
Features
Environment
Our young moon鈥檚 supersonic winds made waves in its magma ocean
News
Space
Weird orbits hint ‘Planet Ten’ might lurk at solar system edge
News
Physics
Mistaken brown dwarf is actually two planets orbiting each other
News
Space
How Jupiter split the asteroid belt in two shows its great age
News
Space
Saturn鈥檚 moons could reassemble after a cosmic smash-up
News
Space
Huge impact could have smashed early Earth into a doughnut shape
News
Earth
Early Earth was covered in a global ocean and had no mountains
News
Space
Earth may have been born in a huge flare-up of the young sun
A sudden brightening of the infant sun 鈥� called an FU Orionis outburst 鈥� could have melted dust grains and made them stick together, building our world
News
Space
Mars Trojans may be part of a planet that was destroyed long ago
News
Earth
Rocks of ages: How meteorites reveal the solar system’s history
Features
Space
Distant DeeDee could be a new dwarf planet
News
Physics
Mars is so small because Jupiter shook up its formation
News