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Lupus 3, is located 600 light years from Earth within the constellation Scorpius, near the centre of the Milky Way.

Tomorrow, a total lunar eclipse - which will be visible from Asia, Australasia and North and Central America - will coincide with a 'blue moon' and a 'supermoon'.

Earth's magnetic field is crucial to the survival of life on our planet as it deflects damaging cosmic rays and solar winds.

These so-called "cosmic messenger particles" are some of the highest energy particles known to science.

New research has investigated the amount of light available in the newborn universe, which may offer some clues.

The Kepler telescope has so far identified more than 2,300 confirmed exoplanets since beginning operations in 2009.

The announcement will come two months after Donald Trump signed a new space policy directive instructing Nasa to return to the moon.

Spacewalking Nasa astronauts gave a hand to the International Space Station's big robot arm as the US federal government geared back up into action.

"While we think we know how planets form in a big-picture sense, there's still a lot of detail we need to fill in," says Kevin Schlaufman.

Current instruments designed to search for alien life tend to be relatively large, heavy and power-hungry. In addition, they can only detect indirect biological signatures.

In two weeks' time, a kilometre-wide space rock will skim past the Earth at speeds of around 67,000mph.

The star was found being "flung backwards and forwards" at several hundred thousand kilometer per hour speed, every 167 days.

While astronomers have predicted this type of event before, it has never been observed directly in a distant galaxy.

The technology works in much the same way as Global Positioning Systems on Earth, albeit on a cosmic scale.

Understanding water ice on Mars is key to unlocking the secrets of the Red Planet, according to scientists.

An unexplained source of powerful cosmic radio bursts is originating from an "extreme environment" that is among the most magnetic regions of the universe ever observed.

Scientists detect "whirlpool"-like motion of gases inside galaxies which formed 800 million years after Big Bang.

The new research has implications for understanding how planetary systems form, astronomers say.

A Japanese astronaut has spoken about his amazing growth spurt and concerns that he may not fit into his Earth-bound Soyuz space shuttle.

In just two years' time, two rovers launch for Mars to look for signs of life – Mars2020 by Nasa and ExoMars by the European Space Agency and Roscosmos.

The object made headlines in 2017 when it was confirmed as the first interstellar visitor to our solar system.

The new findings confirm a decades-old hypothesis describing how the supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies influence the birth of new stars.

Tabby's Star aka KIC 8462852 appears to be inexplicably dimming and brightening sporadically like no other star known to science.

The near-earth asteroid 2017 YZ4 will pass closely between the Earth and the Moon at 3.56pm on 28 December, the first known asteroid to fly by within one lunar distance this month.

Asteroids often collide with other objects as they hurtle through space, leaving their surfaces covered in various markings and craters.

Scientists are still unsure of how exactly the solar system was created, despite huge advances in the field of astronomy.

Water-absorbing rocks may be reason Martian surface is so dry, according to radical research by scientists.

New findings show that a diverse a group of organisms evolved very early in Earth's history, making it more likely that life exists outside of our planet.

Gliese 436b has mesmerized researchers due to its host of unusual features - including a massive, comet-like tail of vaporised gas that is 50 times larger than its parent star.

New research reveals more details about the first object ever detected in our own solar system to have originated from interstellar space