Physics
Mystery of the cosmic dawn: What鈥檚 eating the first starlight?
A shoestring experiment in the Australian outback has seen the signal of the very first stars 鈥� and a weird effect astronomers are struggling to explain
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Space
The neon swirls that show how a map of our galaxy is made
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Space
Far-off black hole appears to be shredding and devouring a star
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Space
A star has been seen exploding faster than any other on record
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Space
We鈥檝e just spotted the brightest mystery radio burst from space
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Physics
Why 2018 is looking like it will be the year of the black hole
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Space
NASA may lose a major space telescope and space station funding
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Physics
Suns and daughters: The family tree that may unite all the stars
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Dancing galaxies may shake up our ideas of galaxy formation
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Space
Interstellar: The bizarre visitor from a far-off solar system
First seen in October 2017, the space rock 'Oumuamua looks like a skyscraper tumbling through space 鈥� and challenges our ideas of how planetary systems form
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Space
Black holes are firing a triple-threat of speedy particles at us
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Earth
Deadly solar flares may have helped seed life on Mars and beyond
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Space
Stars that devour their planets get brighter and faster
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Space
Forgotten mountain shrine to a Soviet superstar of astrophysics
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