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If Ursa Major, the Great Bear constellation, dominates the northern sky above Canada, then below it – across the frozen Arctic tundra – it’s Ursus maritimus, the polar bear, that rules. And between th

Spot magnificent wintertime sky illuminations in these key hotspots

Astronomers are now regularly detecting planets thousands of light years from Earth – but have we missed one in our own Solar System?

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

Projecting our consciousness into other bodies and walking on alien worlds might not be such a far-flung concept