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After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the ...

Fifty years ago, the famed Arecibo message was fired into space to make contact with intelligent extraterrestrials. Now is ...

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We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn.

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?

Ever wondered what the most abundant element on Earth is? Or how the elements that make up our planet compare to those floating out in the vast universe?