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We’ve found the brightest ever supernova but can’t explain it
Astronomers are now sure the incredibly violent stellar explosion spotted last June is the brightest ever seen. But they remain baffled about its source
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Famous Wow! signal might have been from comets, not aliens
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Migrating giant planets might eat their own life-friendly moons
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Giant galaxy caught tearing apart its little neighbour
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As lights block out the night sky, help measure the damage
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Physics
First glimpse of lost library of Elizabethan polymath John Dee
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Life
Star Wars universe passes real-world test for alien head count
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Public vote renames planets after gods, monsters and scientists
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Stargazing through the bottom of a glass
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Two missions face off to seek life in icy seas of Enceladus
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been sampling the plumes on Saturn's moon for a decade, with no sign of microbes. Two proposed missions hope to change that
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Needle formation lets space rubble sneak up on us
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Prodigal gas cloud was born in Milky Way and is crashing back in
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Little galaxy’s own stars cast 95 per cent of its oxygen away
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Japanese Akatsuki probe enters Venus orbit after inspired hack
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