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On Tuesday, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will sweep past Pluto and present the previously unexplored world in all its icy glory. It promises...
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On Tuesday, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will sweep past Pluto and present the previously unexplored world in all its icy glory. It promises...
Astronomers have found evidence for a large population of hidden supermassive black holes in the Universe.
Amazing Most detailed view ever of star formation in the distant universe
The Australian discovery of a strange exoplanet orbiting very close to a small cool star 500 light years away is challenging ideas about how...
A major astrophysical mystery has centred on how massive, quiescent elliptical galaxies, common in the modern Universe, quenched their once furious rates of...
A crucial difference in the 'fingerprints' of Earth and the moon confirms an explosive, interconnected past
Hints that the building blocks of the chemistry of life are universal
That planet’s day is 10 hours, 32 minutes and 44 seconds long.
An international team of astronomers have found a huge and ancient black hole which was powering the brightest object early in the universe.