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'Breakneck speed' mini moon hurtles around Neptune at 20,000mph

Astronomers confirm orbit of tiny moon Hippocamp via multiple images from Hubble

Published: 20 Feb 2019

Brian Cox on Holst's Planets then and now

One hundred years ago Holst’s Planets suite was premiered, with the composer drawing on metaphors and myths to animate his planets. Today’s scientific realities are just as rich and powerful, writes the physicist and TV presenter.

Published: 29 Sep 2018

Brief letters Oswald Mosley, the unpopular populist

Brief letters: Mosley in Manchester | David Edgar’s acting | LGBTQ sandwiches | Clinton called out in 1989 | Rainbow memories | Planet mnemonic

Published: 1 Mar 2018

Published: 1 Mar 2018

Scientists discover ring around dwarf planet Haumea beyond Neptune

Rugby ball-shaped dwarf planet with two moons also has a ring around it and orbits in the outer solar system

Published: 11 Oct 2017

Astro-bling: scientists recreate 'diamond rain' of Neptune and Uranus

Using lasers and polystyrene, researchers say they have mimicked the high temperatures and pressures thought to cause diamond rain within ice giants

Published: 21 Aug 2017

Weatherwatch Neptune – the wildest weather in the solar system

Weatherwatch A new study shows that Neptune’s exotic clouds and violent storms are driven by a combination of cosmic rays and sunlight

Published: 21 Aug 2016

Children's books The best space facts ever – in pictures

Did you know Venus spins in the opposite direction to all the other planets in our solar system and there are thought to be trillions of diamonds on Uranus? Space experts Dr Dominic Walliman and Ben Newman tell all – with the help of Professor Astro Cat

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Published: 13 Nov 2015

A month in space A spacewalk selfie, the Giant Squid Nebula and an origami solar array – in pictures

This month’s roundup of the best space-related imagery in the known universe includes a dramatic solar flare, a cosmonaut’s selfie and an improbable marriage between technology and the ancient Japanese art of paper-folding

Published: 29 Sep 2014

Spacewatch Spacewatch: The Titius-Bode Law

Alan Pickup says Jupiter's powerful gravity has never allowed debris to coalesce into a single object

Published: 14 Sep 2012

Neptune's first orbit: a turning point in astronomy

As Neptune nears a historic orbit around the Sun, Robin McKie recalls the dramatic story of how the icy world was discovered

Published: 9 Jul 2011

Multiple moons for Neptune

Neptune, the eighth planet from the sun, has just acquired five more moons.

Published: 19 Aug 2004

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