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art work of Neptune and Triton

Space

Neptune’s other moons were normal until Triton crashed the party

Neptune’s moons are unlike anything in the solar system, thanks to Triton barrelling in and laying waste to the moons that were there before it

News

Tracking the first interstellar asteroid back to its home star

Space

Tracking the first interstellar asteroid back to its home star

News

Giant star smash-up may have made the biggest neutron star ever

Space

Giant star smash-up may have made the biggest neutron star ever

News

artist's impression of an exoplanet

Space

We may have found 20 habitable worlds hiding in plain sight

News

We may have just seen the first comet from another solar system

Space

We may have just seen the first comet from another solar system

News

Exoplanet and moon

Space

Possible exomoon may be an ocean-covered world as big as Saturn

News

Galaxy

Space

Why our 'freakish' galaxy has got cosmologists seriously worried

Comment

The 5 biggest discoveries from the hunt for gravitational waves

Space

The 5 biggest discoveries from the hunt for gravitational waves

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hole sun main

Space

Hiding in plain sight: The mystery of the sun's missing matter

Features

Illustration of colliding neutron stars

Space

Gravitational waves have let us see huge neutron stars colliding

We’ve taken the first pictures of neutron stars colliding 130 million light years away. The resulting gravitational waves may solve some big cosmic mysteries

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Earth

A tech-destroying solar flare could hit Earth within 100 years

News

Space

Giant black hole seen flickering on and off after galaxy snack

News

Space

Half the universe’s missing matter has just been finally found

News

Space

Snap decisions: Thomas Ruff's show is, literally, off colour

Culture