
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

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

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

5 January 2014
The first example of a three-star system containing only stellar corpses could be used to probe the nature of gravity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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