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Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth. Of the more ...

No score yet, be the first to add. The UK duo continues to rail against austerity and oppression on its 13th record. At worst, the album lapses into vague gesturing; at best, it turns diatribes into ...

“It’s quite a big album, isn’t it?,” Jason Williamson says of Sleaford Mods‘ The Demise of Planet X which continues the UK duo’s expansion of their sonic universe. “I think it happened by accident, ...

It only takes 33 seconds for Jason Williamson to drop an F-bomb on “The Good Life,” the first track from The Demise of Planet X, Sleaford Mods’ first record in three years. This latest record, ...

Blurring the lines between East Coast-influenced hip-hop, Viz-styled spoken word, minimalist electronica and punk rock, Sleaford Mods are the last of the great cult bands. Armed only with a mic and a ...

The Nottingham, UK-based Sleaford Mods’ newest offering, Demise of Planet X on Rough Trade, is a screed against modern society delivered with a thick East Midlands accent, slang, and a fed-up point of ...

With the assistance of a fine array of collaborators from Big Special, former Life Without Buildings’ frontwoman Sue Tompkins, Aldous Harding, Liam Bailey, MC Snowy and Game of Thrones’ actor ...

Nearly 10,000 light years away, a planet the size of Saturn is floating all on its own through empty space. In a stroke of luck, researchers were able to spot this strange, dark world using both ...

Many exoplanets are “hot Jupiters” like this artist’s impression, planets similar to Jupiter orbiting closer to their host star than Mercury does to our Sun. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Our Sun is about ...