All about Mars

Water, water, everywhere in our Solar system but what does that mean for life?

It should be no surprise that water played a key role in the formation and evolution of our planetary system

From the world to worlds

Orbits of TRAPPIST-1’s seven plant system are compact, yet they are not roasted wastelands like Mercury

Heat comes in from the cold

The unlit part of the crescent moon can help calculate Earth's temperature and measure greenhouse warming

Tools for green diplomats

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A peep at planetary births

The Gemini twin-telescope project, being spearheaded by Britain, will help astronomers watch a planet being born

A close encounter with Jupiter's secrets

Spacecraft Ulysses passed the largest planet in the solar system and picked up a rich haul of information before heading for the sun on its …

The mysterious planets

Tadpole like objects in the Helix nebula, detected by the Hubble telescope, suggest the presence ofhitherto unseen objects in the universe

Galileo says...

The six-year-long wait for the Galileo trip to Jupiter started paying off scientific returns last fortnight, as the data sent by the probe was …

Anybody home?

The discovery of two planets orbiting stars similar to the sun has thrown up intriguing possibilities of life existing in the outer space

Rings and wings

Information gathered by the spacecraft Cassini may solve many riddles about the next-most interesting planet after Mars

Walk on the ocean

Jupiter's moon Ganymede shows hints of what was once an ocean. But it is still too early to say whether the satellite supports life

Cool Mr Moon

There is a lot of hydrogen on the moon, possibly in the form of water-ice, which could fuel rockets -- and is fuelling fantasies about colonisation

A perfect ten, is it?

Two groups of scientists have claimed there is proof of a tenth planet in the solar system. Astrophysicists are sceptical

Sound track of the earth

Seismic noise can help map our planet’s interiors

All the weight of the world

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Widening chasm

All aboard for the Red Planet

In tiny specks

...is written the history of the Solar system's formation and life on the Earth

Einstein's drag

Two satellites reveal how Earth's rotation warps space-time

Impact sans disaster

Shifts in time

As it rotates the Earth wraps time and space around itself

Mission to Mars

NASA's latest project will unearth the secrets of the Red Planet

New face

A new planet outside our solar system comes to light

Straighten time space

Magnetic fields are able to unbend the space-time continuum