I'm a space archaeologist studying junk strewn across the solar system
29 April 2020
From vintage satellites to lunar rovers, space archaeologist Alice Gorman is teasing out a unique history of humanity from the objects we've dispatched from Earth
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Is the universe conscious? It seems impossible until you do the maths
29 April 2020
The question of how the brain gives rise to subjective experience is the hardest of all. Mathematicians think they can help, but their first attempts have thrown up some eye-popping conclusions
We may have found 19 more interstellar asteroids in our solar system
23 April 2020
A bunch of asteroids near Jupiter and Neptune with orbits perpendicular to the plane of the solar system may have come here from a different star system
Mysterious ‘Planet Nine’ on the solar system’s edge may not be real
21 April 2020
Strange orbits of distant space rocks have been used to infer that the solar system has an unseen ninth planet, but those orbits may be less strange than we thought, meaning there is no need for a new planet
A giant raft of rock may once have floated across Mars’s ancient ocean
21 April 2020
Mars could have had an ancient ocean in its northern hemisphere, and a large raft of volcanic rock may have floated across it to settle into mounds we can see today
