SuperWASP’s wrong-way planets are a surprise
A UK-led planet hunt has found nine new worlds around other stars.
A UK-led planet hunt has found nine new worlds around other stars.
A European probe called Corot has discovered the first planet orbiting another star that resembles one in our own solar system.
A European probe has discovered the first planet orbiting another star that resembles one in our own solar system.
A space holiday firm, Bigelow Aerospace, has become the first commercial company to advertise for professional astronauts.
Astronomers have produced the first detailed weather-map of the biggest and longest-running storm in the solar system. They used the world’s biggest telescopes to peer into a famous feature on giant gas-ball planet Jupiter called the Great Red Spot.
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UK astronomers have discovered a pair of stars twirling around each other at record-breaking speed.
A major new inquest into the death of the dinosaurs has decided they really were wiped out by a giant asteroid up to ten miles wide.
Europe’s Mars Express probe is tonight skimming past a moon that was once thought to be an alien spacecraft.
NASA scientists have found more vast deposits of water around the Moon’s north pole.