Planets may lurk in harshest environments. Not that Novell NetWare server you can't unplug – black holes
Technically possible but there's no way to check... for now
26 Nov 2019
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Your FREE end-of-the-world guide: What happens when a sun like ours runs out of fuel
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
15 May 2019
Are brown dwarfs stars or planets? Boffins find evidence for proto-suns in a solar system
Finding a twin brown dwarfs around a giant star just adds to the confusion
10 Apr 2019
Kepler may be dead but its data keeps on giving, thanks to AI: Two alien worlds found in archives
Physics undergrad tells El Reg how she developed planet-spotting machine-learning code
27 Mar 2019
Yes! Pack your bags! Blossoming planetary system strikingly similar to ours found by boffins
It may have an asteroid belt, worlds similar to Earth and Neptune – and only 470 light years away
15 Mar 2019
Let's see. Translation, facial recognition, running people over... What else can AI do? Ah yes, predict planet mass
It's quicker and easier than solving maths equations at least
14 Mar 2019
Eggheads want YOU to name Jupiter's five newly found moons ‒ and yeah, not so fast with Moony McMoonface
Looks like someone's thought ahead this time
22 Feb 2019
People say tabloid hacks are always looking for an angle. This time, they'd be right: Tilting disk of proto-planets spotted
Only 45 parsecs away if you fancy a look up close
15 Jan 2019
Douglas Adams was right, ish... Super-Earth world clocked orbiting 'nearby' Barnard's Star
Icy planet within cosmic spitting distance of humanity
15 Nov 2018
Alien sun has smashing time sucking up planets
First case of solar suckage
20 Jul 2018
Astroboffins spot planets swimming in the mists of forming stars
New technique looks for patterns in protostars
13 Jun 2018
PACK YOUR BAGS! Two Trappist-1 planets have watery oceans, most likely to be inhabitable
Inhabitable with alien lifeforms, mind you. Grab a phaser
24 Jan 2018
Mass limit proposed so boffins can tell when they've fingered a brown dwarf or a fat planet
Not a particularly left field suggestion...
24 Jan 2018
Astroboffins spot a fat 'monster' ALIEN planet terrorizing tiny dwarf
PicIt's the biggest faraway world found compared to the size of its parent
31 Oct 2017
Pack your bags! NASA spots SEVEN nearby Earth-sized alien worlds
Pics and videoIt's a Trap...pist mini solar system 44 million years away by jet plane
22 Feb 2017
Amid new push to make Pluto a planet again... Get over it, ice-world's assassin tells El Reg
Boffins demand rule rewrite to restore glorified moon's dignity
21 Feb 2017
Science non-fiction: Newly spotted alien world bathes in glow of three stars
First planet spotted by SPHERE is a weird one
07 Jul 2016
NASA's astroboffins spot the largest ever Tatooine planet
Kepler 1647-b bigger than Jupiter, circles two stars... just like Tatooine
13 Jun 2016
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