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Planets orbiting one star in a stellar pair could get bounced from star to star repeatedly – until they fall into the great beyond

Stuff spewed out of Io's hyperactive volcanoes make the rings of auroral light on Jupiter's poles grow and shrink

The planet Fomalhaut b looks the size of Jupiter, but there's no sign of its heat – the truth may be more exotic

A weak solar maximum might sound like a blessing but could leave us wide open in 2024

Being in space messes with your brain – bad news if you're steering a spacecraft. How can we save astronauts from the space stupids, asks Anil Ananthaswamy

Technology makes our planet more vulnerable to solar outbursts than ever before. What are the risks to Earthlings as the sun gears up for peak activity?

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays occasionally slam into Earth, but their source had been a mystery

Japan's Hayabusa 2 probe will use brute force to collect samples from an asteroid in an attempt to avoid the pitfalls of its problem-plagued predecessor

US presidential candidate Gingrich's plan to colonise the moon is wasteful and scientifically unsound – and that's just the start of it, says Lawrence Krauss

Taking in plastic sand, marmalade skies and methane rivers, a tour of Titan's sand dunes would be as trippy as a late Beatles song

What was supposed to be a superweapon in the battle to find out whether nature's fundamental constants vary has turned out to be a damp squib

Increased solar activity as the sun nears its maximum has removed satellite debris from low Earth orbit, making it temporarily safer

A rocky planet the size of Mercury seems to be turning to gas, demonstrating just how wacky alien planets can be

We don't have to take the heat death of the universe lying down – a time crystal, symmetrical in time rather than space, would have the power to survive

A gravitational lens has allowed us to detect a distant dwarf galaxy of dark matter, suggesting the Milky Way isn't as lonely as it looks to us Earthlings

Initial cries of sabotage have morphed into claims that US radar brought down Phobos-Grunt by accident – but how plausible are they?

The last of the spacecraft tasked with measuring the big bang's echo has run out of liquid coolant, effectively ending the mission

Any day now, Russia's ill-fated Phobos-Grunt spacecraft is due to re-enter Earth's atmosphere, fully fuelled

A weird mix of crushed subatomic particles, the innards of neutrons stars are among the universe's most impenetrable spots. Here's a way to peek inside

The head of Russia's space agency has alluded to hi-tech sabotage of its space probes by foreign forces. The US is not guilty, says Konstantin Kakaes