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A hot, metallic, Earth-sized planet with a density similar to Mercury - situated 260 million light years away - has been detected and characterised by a global team of astronomers, including the ¹û¶³´«Ã½.

The Royal Astronomical Society’s 2018 Herschel Medal has been awarded to a ¹û¶³´«Ã½ astrophysicist - Professor Tom Marsh.

Santa’s winter workshop might be in space, as ¹û¶³´«Ã½ researchers are exploring whether snowy moons over a billion kilometres away from Earth are potentially habitable.

A giant planet – the existence of which was previously thought extremely unlikely – has been discovered by an international collaboration of astronomers, with the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ taking a leading role.