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An international exoplanet ‘think tank’ is meeting this week in Cambridge to deliberate on the ten most important questions that humanity could...

A young star over 30 times more massive than the Sun could help us understand how the most extreme stars in the Universe are born.

With its very first – and last – observation, the Hitomi x-ray observatory has discovered that the gas in the Perseus cluster of galaxies is much...

Black holes are the most powerful gravitational force in the Universe. So what could cause them to be kicked out of their host galaxies? Cambridge...

Astronomers have found the first evidence of comets around a star similar to the sun, providing an opportunity to study what our solar system was...

Three Earth-sized planets have been discovered orbiting a dim and cool star, and may be the best place to search for life beyond the Solar System.

The most detailed map of a small, rocky ‘super Earth’ to date reveals a planet almost completely covered by lava, with a molten ‘hot’ side and solid...

New window on the universe is opened with the observation of gravitational waves – ripples in spacetime – caused by the collision of two black holes...