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Space

Project Blue plans to send space telescope to snap nearby worlds

The mission is to launch a telescope the size of a washing machine and point it in the direction of Alpha Centauri 鈥� our neighbouring star system

Proxima b

Space

Failed hunt for Proxima b鈥檚 star transit leaves us in the dark

NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman captured this image from the International Space Station and posted it to social media on Sept. 28, 2014, writing, "The Milky Way steals the show from Sahara sands that make the Earth glow orange."

Space

Super-dim galaxy may be one of hundreds orbiting the Milky Way

Hypothetical view of an exoplanet with two suns

Space

Giant hidden Jupiters may explain lonely planet systems

The Large Magellanic Cloud

Space

Milky Way’s baby brother caught copying its star shredding habit

Space

Our home spiral arm in the Milky Way is less wimpy than thought

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Physics

Robot eyes are catching up with our exploding cosmos

Drawing of Ophiuchus

Sponsored

No, NASA hasn’t changed the zodiac signs or added a new one

Aerial view of the 500-metre-wide telescope dish

Space

Biggest radio telescope on Earth ready to receive alien signals

Gas giant exoplanet in front of star

Space

Puffed-up exoplanets inflate with heat from their stars alone

A recently discovered exoplanet suggests that hot Jupiters are bigger than expected because they absorb their host star鈥檚 powerful radiation

Space

Mystery radio bursts may be pulsars bumping into asteroids

Space

World’s largest telescope array takes its deepest view yet

Space

New NASA budget could put asteroid-grabbing mission in jeopardy

Space

鈥楢lien megastructure鈥� star may be explained by interstellar junk