Herschel’s discovery in the 18th century of 560 missing stars is the focus of new audio-visual…
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Voyage to the Edge of Imagination review: A compelling new sci-fi show
A new exhibition at the Science Museum isn’t so much about science fiction, as it is…
Astronomers saw a distant supernova less than 6 hours after it blew up
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a distant star exploding earlier than ever before, allowing astronomers…
How JWST could find signs of alien life in exoplanet atmospheres
The James Webb Space Telescope can peer into alien skies like never before. With six potentially…
We may finally know how impossible stars at our galaxy's centre formed
The centre of the Milky Way is home to more than 100 young stars that shouldn’t…
Planets around graveyard star were consumed before Earth was even born
A strangely cool star that has been dead for more than 10 billion years contains levels…
Chinese rocket has crashed back to Earth but no one knows where
On Monday, China launched its Long March-5B rocket to carry the final module to the Tiangong…
A weird dead star may have a solid-like surface made of iron crystals
X-ray observations show that a distant magnetar may have a surface made of a strange material…
Neutrinos have been spotted coming from a strange, shrouded galaxy
Cosmic neutrinos are tough to track – it has only been done once before – but…
How to spot the Hyades, the closest star cluster to Earth
This is the time of year to spot the Hyades, named for weeping nymphs from Greek…