space

In a series of experiments conducted last month, Cambridge researchers experienced weightlessness testing graphene’s application in space.

Astronomers have looked back to a time soon after the Big Bang, and have discovered swirling gas in some of the earliest galaxies to have formed in...

A star about the size of Saturn – the smallest ever measured – has been identified by astronomers.

A group of astronomers have shown that the fastest-moving stars in our galaxy – which are travelling so fast that they can escape the Milky Way – are...

Results confirm new population of black holes.

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Cambridge, used data gathered by the Kepler Space Telescope to...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Cambridge, has made the most detailed image of the ring of dusty...

The first results from the Gaia satellite, which is completing an unprecedented census of more than one billion stars in the Milky Way, are being...