For the first time physicists have observed how highly charged dust-sized particles attract and capture others to build up clusters particle by particle.

The most detailed weather map ever made of an exoplanet orbiting another star 260 light-years away from Earth shows a world with daytime temperatures hot enough to melt steel.

At the Vulcan laser facility in the UK, scientists recreated a supernova in an attempt to find out more about the origin of magnetic fields.