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Galileo knew he had discovered a new planet in 1613, 234 years before its official discovery date, according to a new theory by a University of Melbourne... read more

An armada of robots may one day fly above the mountain tops of Saturn’s moon Titan, cross its vast dunes and sail in its liquid lakes. Wolfgang... read more

Today, at an international ESO/CAUP exoplanet conference in Porto, the team who built the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better known... read more

Scientists will measure the spectra of a thousand galaxies and quasars. The most ambitious attempt yet to trace the history of the universe has seen “first... read more

Astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii last month snapped high-resolution near-infrared images... read more

The confirmation of the nature of CoRoT-7b as the first rocky planet outside our solar system marks a significant step forward in the search for earth-like... read more

Epsilon Aurigae’s unusual dimming remains mysterious, but help from amateur astronomers could change that. Next week marks the return of both a cosmic... read more

The black hole contains at least a billion times as much matter as does our Sun. University of Hawaii astronomer Tomotsugu Goto and colleagues have discovered... read more

Despite their popularity in the science fiction genre, there is much to be learned about black holes, the mysterious regions in space once thought to be... read more

A new study from two of NASA’s Great Observatories provides fresh insight into how some stars are born, along with a beautiful new image of a stellar... read more