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How our knowledge of these worlds beyond the Solar System has exploded in the last three decades
Ten years ago, on 14 September 2015, a new window on the Universe was opened, giving us a novel way of studying exotic, high-energy objects such as black holes and neutron stars: the first direct dete
Astronomers love a challenge. They place their observatories on the highest mountains, in the driest deserts, on the coldest ice shelves, beneath the deepest oceans, in orbit around Earth and the Sun,
An astrophysicist has made a daring proposal to send ...
Planetary physicist Dr Sheila Kanani on why now is the time to spot shooting stars and a sunlit Saturn
The number of planets discovered orbiting other stars stands at over 6,000 and counting, but that’s just the confirmed ones. Many more candidate exoplanets are awaiting verification, some of which are
