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In Hawai‘i, scientists have tuned into the vibrations of a nearby star—and what they heard rewrites the music sheet of the ...
Astronomers didn’t even know sub-Neptunes existed until NASA’s Kepler mission uncovered them over the past decade. Although a ...
When Lungelo Zondi first learned about stars and galaxies at primary school in South Africa, she dreamed of having a live ...
A sparkling cloudscape is revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope, which used its instruments to capture multiple wavelengths ...
Family-inherited items which were valued on BBC's Antiques Roadshow for a staggering sum can now be found in Liverpool. Our ...