Brown dwarf’s powerful auroras shine bright
Radio and optical emissions suggest that the sub-stellar objects behave more like planets than stars
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Searching for life on other planets
Sara Seager is keen to use the next generation of telescopes to look for evidence of extraterrestrial life
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Pluto comes into focus as New Horizons nears the dwarf planet
Spacecraft will soon be just 12,500 km from Pluto
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Philae comet lander wakes up from hibernation mode
Probe could restart science operations soon
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Nascent ‘Kuiper belt’ seen encircling nearby star
Discovery could help us understand how the early solar system evolved
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An interstellar culture clash
Jennifer Ouellette ponders the scientific and political messages of Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem
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Fiery end for MESSENGER mission
Craft crashes into Mercury after running out of fuel
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Trail runs cold on alien hotspots, for now
Search of 100,000 galaxies fails to find waste heat of advanced civilizations
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First visible light detected directly from an exoplanet
New method can pick up extremely faint reflected light despite low signal-to-noise ratio
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ALMA debuts its high-resolution results
Radio telescope makes new discoveries in its long-baseline configuration
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