Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

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An incredible £50m nuclear fusion rocket developed by British scientists over the past decade has been unveiled for the very ...

For the newly discovered pulsar, known as PSR J1719-1438, the astronomers noticed that the arrival times of the pulses were systematically modulated. They concluded that this was due to the ...

Astronomers have found evidence for what might be a planet with about half the mass of the Moon orbiting the pulsar PSR J0337+1715 – this would make it the least massive planet we have ever ...

Online chatter and a frenzy of media coverage has tended to make a big deal of allegedly rare "planetary alignments" and "planet parades" gracing our night skies. The hoopla has culminated this ...