For the first time ionised hydrogen has been detected at the lowest frequency ever towards the centre of our galaxy
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Asteroid-hunting space telescope discovers two potential comets
NASA’s NEOWISE mission has found some celestial objects travelling through our neighbourhood, including one on the blurry line between asteroid and comet
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Three giant planets discovered in orbit around Sun’s twins
The findings may help explain the influence that giant planets like Jupiter have over a Solar System’s architecture
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Astronomers find most distant galaxy clusters ever
The structures are as they appeared when the universe was only four billion years old
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Astronomers discover unusually young, heavyweight star
A young star, located almost 11,000 light years away, which could help us understand how the most massive stars in the universe are formedm, has been found
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New research suggests discovery of fifth fundamental force of nature
If true, the revolutionary finding could be key in understanding dark matter
Space Exploration
Ride with the Space Shuttle in this mind-blowing video
See and hear what it’s like to lift off with NASA’s low Earth orbital spacecraft system
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Astronomers find planet with triple sunrises and sunsets
The exoplanet HD 131399Ab is unlike any other known world
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Astronomers capture rare sight of youngest fully-formed exoplanet to date
The find tells us a thing or two about planetary formation
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Young free-floating ‘planet’ found close to the Sun
One of the youngest and brightest free-floating, planet-like objects ever discovered has been found in the solar neighbourhood
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Astronomers discover new ‘super spiral’ class of galaxy
A strange new kind of galactic beast has been spotted in the cosmic wilderness
Space Exploration
VIDEO: Watch 135 Space Shuttle launches at the same time
Every single launch of NASA’s iconic orbital spacecraft can be seen simultaneously in this stunning compilation
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Earth-based telescope unlocks secrets of brightest galaxy in the universe
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has got a closer look at the most luminous structure in the cosmos
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Comet Lovejoy found to release sugar and ‘500 bottles of wine’ every second
Lovejoy lived up to its name by releasing large amounts of alcohol as well as a type of sugar into space, according to new observations
Solar System
VIDEO: What have we discovered about Pluto so far?
We take a look at what we’ve found out about the dwarf planet
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Rocks ready to make planets seen for the first time
Lumps of rock in the process of forming planets have been detected for the very first time
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Starmus 2014: “I’m very sad that the Space Shuttle has gone into retirement,” says Brian May
Queen guitarist Brian May speaks of his sadness about the end of the Space Shuttle Program, over three years after it ended
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Solar Maximum: All About Space issue 18 free preview!
Find out what fantastic articles you’ll be reading in the latest issue of All About Space, on sale now.
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Spotted! New worlds thriving in deadly star cluster
Data from NASA’s troubled Kepler Space Telescope has revealed more evidence that planets can survive in chaotic and hostile environments thanks to its discovery of two new worlds sneaking across their stars in a star cluster.
Astronomy
What would happen if SETI found an alien signal?
Is there a procedure to announce the discovery of intelligent extraterrestrial life?