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News

Exoplanet hunting brought down to Earth

Infrared correction technique reveals methane in exoplanet's atmosphere

Obama cancels Moon return

NASA refocuses on science with an extra $6bn over five years

Sun's appetite for dark matter may affect Earth's orbit

Will the Earth–Sun distance halve in several billion years?

Legendary oceanographer scoops Crafoord prize

Tide master Walter Munks awarded $550,000 for seminal geophysics research

In depth

Law and the end of the world

Edwin Cartlidge examines the case of a US lawyer who believes that the courts must step in if required to halt experiments like the Large Hadron Collider

Between the lines

Space elevators, the Tunguska mystery and how to understand physics through the everyday

Priority battles

A dozen years after it was found, the priority dispute over who discovered dark energy lingers on, says Robert P Crease

Between the lines

The other Oppenheimer, cooking for astronauts and the "amazing" Grace Hopper