Astrophysicists have discovered an Earth-like planet, capable of supporting life as we know it, orbiting the nearest star to our…
The world’s biggest radio telescope has been built in China, with the ultimate aim to find extraterrestrial civilisations, the country’s…
Eminent astrophysicist Professor Stephen Hawking has joined forces with science investor and philanthropist Yuri Milner to launch a revolutionary $100m…
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Astrophysicists have discovered a distant planet that has not one, not two, but three suns in its sky. While the…
NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have recently been constructing a team of astronomers as part of a project…
For the first time ever, astronomers have recorded the moment at which a star started to explode – known as…
The dwarf planet on the edge of our Solar System, Pluto, is one of the most enigmatic and unknown to…
Last year, we told you that a series of strange signals from the depths of space had been detected by…
Earlier this month, the discovery of the gravitational waves shook the scientific community as it confirmed one of Einstein's theories…
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NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope (above) has discovered an Earth-like planet within our galaxy. The planet, given the designation Kepler-452b, is…