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Forty-four planets in solar systems beyond our own have been unveiled in one go, dwarfing the usual number of confirmations from extrasolar surveys, which...

A research team in Spain has the enviable job of testing out new electromechanical gear for potential use in future missions to the "Red...

Using its X-ray vision to observe what is left of a massive star that exploded long ago, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) spacecraft has shed...

Arctic lakes have been freezing up later in the year and thawing earlier, creating a winter ice season about 24 days shorter than it...

Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid...

Astronomers have discovered a rare chemical pairing in the remains of an exploded star, called the Crab nebula. A gas thought to be a...

Two months ago astronomers created a new 3D map of stars at the centre of our Galaxy (the Milky Way), showing more clearly than...

Two scientists from NASA and NOAA have developed a new space-based technique for monitoring the ice cover of the Great Lakes that is so...

The first ever evidence of a comet entering Earth's atmosphere and exploding, raining down a shock wave of fire which obliterated every life form...

Ocean currents have a big impact on weather and climate. Without the Gulf Stream, the climate of Northern and Western Europe would be cooler....