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In terms of quantum computing, Ilyas Khan believes the UK is leading the way, just as it did at the start of the first industrial revolution. The CEO of Quantinuum, the organisation formed from the ...

Astronomers using data from the SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), have made the first confirmed detection of a star system that will one day form a ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a rapidly spinning neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a helium star companion. The discovery of this unusual binary system helps confirm a long ...

The discovery of the new planet BEBOP-1c confirms the 2nd-ever known planetary system orbiting twin stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

The SOAR Telescope, located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, has received a major upgrade with the installation of the SOAR Telescope Echelle Spectrograph (STELES). The long-awaited instrument achieved first ...

SEATTLE — Luke Skywalker’s home planet in Star Wars is the stuff of science fiction. But Tatooine-like planets in orbit around pairs of stars might be our best bet in the search for habitable planets ...

Researchers have discovered a supermassive black hole binary system, one of only two known such systems. A team of researchers from Purdue University and other institutions have discovered a ...