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ESPRESSO confirms Earth-sized planet around the nearest star

June 2, 2020
The existence of a planet the size of Earth around the closest star in the solar system, Proxima Centauri, has been confirmed by an international team of scientists including researchers...

Just good sense

November 29, 2019
Síle _Lane is on a mission to challenge misrepresentation of science and evidence. She is leading the AllTrials campaign, which makes institutions accountable to the House of Commons Science and...

Playing it for laughs

October 14, 2019
We catch-up with presenter, comedian and science outreacher extraordinaire Helen Arney to talk stand-up, singing and cabaret.

Signals suggest black hole swallowed neutron star

August 19, 2019
Gravitational wave detectors have registered evidence of a black hole swallowing a neutron star for the first time.

Space trash

May 17, 2019
Trashy TV sci-fi, Brian Blessed and a surprising scientific gem – Russ Swan bends over backwards to justify a guilty pleasure… We all have our guilty pleasures, and one of...

Galactic fountain

November 27, 2018
An international team of scientists has observed plumes of cold molecular gas sprayed out by a black hole a billion light-years from Earth. The team say this is the first...

Net successfully snares space debris

October 15, 2018
For the first time human history, a satellite has been successfully used to capture a piece of space debris.The RemoveDEBRIS satellite, designed, built and manufactured by a consortium of leading...

New clues to source of comet oxygen

July 16, 2018
Scientists have found that molecular oxygen around comet 67P is not produced on its surface, as thought, but may be from its body. The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft escorted...

This isn’t the binary system you’re looking for…

May 8, 2018
Artificial intelligence is helping astronomers study the habitability of circumbinary planets – those that orbit two stars instead of just one, much like the fictional planet Tatooine in the Star...

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