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Exoplanet hunting brought down to Earth

Feb 5, 2010

Infrared correction technique reveals methane in exoplanet's atmosphere

Obama cancels Moon return

Feb 2, 2010 8 comments

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

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

Jan 25, 2010 7 comments

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

Legendary oceanographer scoops Crafoord prize

Jan 22, 2010 2 comments

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

In depth

Law and the end of the world

Feb 2, 2010 8 comments

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

Feb 2, 2010 3 comments

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

Priority battles

Jan 5, 2010 12 comments

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

Between the lines

Jan 5, 2010

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