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Pillars of Creation seen in new light

The European Space Agency has looked again at Hubble’s Pillars of Creation and turned up the wow factor with a new image.

New detective work has ruled out former favourite M67 as the star cluster which originally hatched our Sun.

Astronomers have spotted a black hole spitting out super-fast ‘bullets’ from the disk of material torn from a neighbouring star.

Planets outnumber stars in the Milky Way, a new cosmic survey by astronomers concludes.

A desert-based project could be close to solving the century-old mystery of where cosmic rays come from.

Two leading planetary scientists have conducted a gentle but very public spat on Twitter over Saturn’s largest moon Titan.

With well over 700 planets so far discovered around other stars, astronomers are now looking to a fresh challenge – finding their moons.

A striking image from the European Southern Observatory brings out the beauty of the Omega Nebula, a cosmic cloud where new stars are being born.

An asteroid passed in front of brilliant star Betelgeuse yesterday – but there is little chance you would have noticed it.

Could our Universe co-exist with other universes that forever expand in a sequence of “Big Bangs” or “Big Crunches”?

A brilliant new “star of wonder” is wowing people after Comet Lovejoy has appeared in the east right before Christmas.

NASA’s Kepler space probe has discovered the most Earth-size planets yet detected orbiting another star.