A spacecraft testing technology for hunting ripples in the fabric of space–time has felt minuscule collisions with grains of cometary dust floating between planets
Read article: Gravitational-wave mission detects rain of interplanetary dust
And perhaps even help explain why the magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune are so different from Earth’s
Read article: New superionic ice phase could shed more light on icy giant cores
Tiny rumble could herald the beginning of Martian seismology
Read article: First-ever detection of a ‘Marsquake’ made by NASA’s InSight mission
Surprising results from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter suggest that some mysterious mechanism is removing methane from the Martian atmosphere
Read article: Missing methane magnifies Mars mystery
New model could explain why planets can form very quickly
Read article: Planets could be formed by interstellar objects like ’Oumuamua
'Oumuamua is the first confirmed interstellar object detected in our solar system – and it's baffling scientists. Andrew Glester explains
Read article: ‘Oumuamua: visitor from another star
Planetary geologist wants to hear from anyone who observed or photographed the event at 04:41:43 UTC
Read article: Citizen scientists spot meteorite strike during lunar eclipse
Hamish Johnston reviews One of Ten Billion Earths: How we Learn About our Planet’s Past and Future from Distant Exoplanets by Karel Schrijver
Read article: Commonly uncommon
David Appell reviews Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System by Natalie Starkey
Read article: Hellions of the solar system
Rare compound could exist at temperatures and pressures found at the core–mantle boundary
Read article: Helium-3 could be bound-up with iron and oxygen deep within the Earth
