The 20 new worlds have been found around eight bright, Sun-like stars by the HARPS Echelle Spectograph instrument, mounted on the 3.6m telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile.
Pictures of Jupiter's most powerful storm, have been transmitted to Earth, giving eager scientist close-up views of the 10,000-mile-wide anticyclone where winds have been howling for at least 187 years.
For the first time, a primitive movie has been encoded in, and then played back from, DNA in living cells.
The researchers have produced an intricate 3D rendering of newly formed molecules inside the supernova remnant using ALMA telescope.
This is the farthest back that the ice front has been in recorded history, and the scientists are going to be watching very carefully for signs that the rest of the shelf is becoming unstable.
Dreams of hypersonic air travel might come true courtesy of a new material.
A new type of microscope aims to reduce the number of surgeries needed by breast cancer patients by identifying cancerous tissue in real-time
Astronomers at the University of Cambridge have discovered a star that’s barely bigger than Saturn, making it the smallest stellar object known to science.
Researchers in China have teleported a photon from the ground to a satellite orbiting more than 500 kilometers above.
Tesla’s big Australian battery will demonstrate how renewable energy can be stored in significant quantities. The battery will supply 30,000 homes.
If we're going start building colonies elsewhere, then one of the essential resources we're going to need is energy. A new study says Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has it in abundance.
The 530 million total electric cars forecast to be on the road by 2040.
In the space of 10 years there are 1.9 milion fewer smokers in Britain and "big changes in public attitudes towards smoking".
Shipping container farms, called TerraFarms, grow produce twice as fast as a traditional farm, all while using 97 percent less water and zero pesticides or herbicides.
