One of the biggest astronomical explosions ever seen has been spotted in a galaxy far, far away.
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Impatient physicists in Durham are floating a huge balloon- mounted telescope out of the Earth's atmosphere in...
As big as a golf ball seen from 10 million km away, scientists have weighed the smallest planet yet discovered orbiting...
A 'super-Earth' water planet could actually be volcanic, changing our understanding of volcanism and plate...
The cosmic gales from black holes could be putting a hault to new, nearby stars forming...
A system of 11-billion-year-old Earth-sized planets has been discovered, increasing the likelihood of finding...
What causes the phenomenal natural light show that is the Northern Lights?
A wake of material from a comet which skimmed through the Solar atmosphere in 2011 is being used to probe the...
Since their discovery cosmic rays have been a mystery. Now, an orbiting gamma-ray telescope has managed to identify...
This week has seen planetary scientists gathering in Madrid for the European Planetary Science Congress, and several...
A paper published this week in the Astrophysical Journal suggests that up to 90% of supernova explosions go unseen by...
A paper published this week in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society sheds new light on whether there...
Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile believe they have made the first ever observations of galaxies that...
A huge, hot dusty disc around a Sun-like star seems to have vanished before our very eyes, and its disappearance cannot...
The timings of supernova explosions close to Earth marry up with epochs in the planet's history when the diversity...
Models suggest the Milky Way should have far more dwarf galaxies orbiting it than we see - known as the the "...
A comet not far from Earth has shed some light on how our planet could have come by much of its water, a new study has...
Solar seismology may improve space weather forecasts...