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Astronomers are now regularly detecting planets thousands of light years from Earth – but have we missed one in our own Solar System?
Although it’s by no means certain, scientists are slowly accumulating evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet
On 19 October vet Andrew Melville-Smith was driving near the Spencer Gulf in South Australia in his new Tesla Model Y when there was a deafening explosion and he and his passengers were showered with
The year 2025 has been a vintage one for astronomy. In January, we were hooked on reports of a building-sized asteroid on course to collide with Earth. The risk was quickly downgraded from worrying to
An artist’s impression of Cha 1107-7626 accreting material ...
As an astronomer, I collect stars. There are several hundred billion of them in our Galaxy, the Milky Way, so it’s important to find a way to categorise them. While others might rank their stars by co