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Astrophile: Binary stars that form like fraternal twins

Astrophile: Binary stars that form like fraternal twins

14 January 2014

Half of the sun-like stars in the galaxy are in binary pairs – we've just glimpsed into a stellar nursery to see how such pairs come into the universe


Most common exoplanets are weird 'mini-Neptunes'

Most common exoplanets are weird 'mini-Neptunes'

7 January 2014

Planets more than twice Earth's size are likely to be more gassy or wetter than Earth, limiting the places where machine-savvy alien life could develop


Astrophile: Trio of dead stars could take on Einstein

Astrophile: Trio of dead stars could take on Einstein

5 January 2014

The first example of a three-star system containing only stellar corpses could be used to probe the nature of gravity


First exomoon glimpsed – 1800 light years from Earth

First exomoon glimpsed – 1800 light years from Earth

18 December 2013

A newly glimpsed pair of objects may be the first known moon outside of our solar system and its exoplanet, both far away from any star


The night: When lights go out, the sky comes alive

The night: When lights go out, the sky comes alive

27 November 2013

The sky has stars and galaxies galore to offer, if you can just get away from those city lights, says Valerie Jamieson


Dwarf seahorses are stealth hunters of the oceans

Dwarf seahorses are stealth hunters of the oceans

26 November 2013

At just 2.5 centimetres long, one of the slowest moving animals in the oceans has a special trick for snapping up some of the fastest


Sunny fix would let defunct Kepler hunt planets again

Sunny fix would let defunct Kepler hunt planets again

7 November 2013

Recently given up for dead, NASA's Kepler space telescope might get a new lease of life that will broaden the planet-hunting king's view of the sky


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Fake planets reveal distance to Earth's nearest twin

4 November 2013

Kepler, the king of planet-hunting telescopes, may be dead but a simulation says an Earth-like planet is just 12 light years away


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11 October 2013

All the latest on newscientist.com: theories of everything – what good are they? the future of 3D printing, life with a purpose, here be dragons and more


Zombie star caught feasting on a soggy asteroid

Zombie star caught feasting on a soggy asteroid

10 October 2013

The rocky remains polluting the atmosphere of a white dwarf include the first chemical evidence that water can exist on Earth-like exoplanets


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