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A faint red star can be seen next to a mich brighter pair of stars that appear as one

Space

Proxima Centauri really does orbit its two bright neighbours

After a century of speculation, we now know the little planet-bearing star revolves around Alpha Centauri A and B every 550,000 years

Space

Hubble rounds up the first worlds we鈥檒l check for alien life

Europa

Life

Spacecraft could taste Europa’s sea by sampling its atmosphere

A pair of planets passing in from of their star

Physics

Exoplanet hunters are missing 75 per cent of two-star worlds

Physics

Mickey Mouse ears may explain universe鈥檚 biggest explosions

James Webb Space Telescope

Space

Space telescope duo will showcase the solar system in 3D

Space

Mars orbiter spots new crater that may be ExoMars’s lost lander

Galaxy NGC5128, taken by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Space

Mystery cosmic objects light up in X-ray then go dim in an hour

Space

Pluto may sport clouds of poisonous acid and flammable gases

Kepler-11 and exoplanets

Space

Toddler stars’ baby fat kicks out almost all their exoplanets

The Kepler space telescope has found more singleton planets than expected. A new explanation blames young stars for tossing planets out in a tantrum

Physics

Strange signals from 234 stars could be ET – or human error

Physics

Proxima b’s hyperactive star is more sun-like than thought

Space

Uranus might have two dark moons we’ve never seen before

Space

Our universe contains 10 times more galaxies than we thought