Even if no life is found on other planets, smart survey design and careful statistics can still reveal how rare, or common, ...

The draw for the Investec Champions Cup quarter-finals has been confirmed following Toulouse's victory over Sale Sharks in the final round-of-16 clash.

Alex Albon quipped that it must have been a "boring" Japanese GP after he was quizzed on his tense Williams radio exchanges.

As historians we rarely predict the future since we are trained to look at the past, draw lessons from it, and identify ...

This planet, five times larger than Earth, has extreme temperatures reaching 2,400°C and could contain significant quantities of diamonds. This discovery challenges our understanding of planetary ...

Wrapped up in warm coats and woolly hats, hundreds of people have braved Moscow's chilly spring weather to form an orderly queue. But they have not come to see a celebrity or an exclusive ...

The European Space Agency has released its first tranche of data from the Euclid space telescope's mission to map the ...

The nearest single star to the sun, Barnard’s star, has a brood of planets all its own. The red dwarf star, about six light-years from Earth, hosts four close-in planets each about two to three ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope ...

A combination of the world's most powerful telescopes detected the planets. Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from ...

The Challenge Cup quarter-finals take place this weekend. Hull FC will play Hull KR in the Challenge Cup for the first time in almost 40 years after they were drawn together in the quarter-finals of ...