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Pierre Auger Observatory

Space

Far-off galaxies are firing rare high-energy cosmic rays at us

The highest energy particles in the universe hit Earth very rarely, so it took 10 years of data to pinpoint their origin. They’re coming from galaxies far, far away

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Proxima b

Space

Our closest star system may be home to a stolen star and planet

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Cassini to live-stream its final moments in Saturn’s atmosphere

Space

Cassini to live-stream its final moments in Saturn’s atmosphere

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We’ve just seen 15 new mysterious cosmic radio bursts from space

Space

We’ve just seen 15 new mysterious cosmic radio bursts from space

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Kepler planetary disk

Space

‘Alien megastructure’ star may host Saturn-like exoplanet

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Solar eclipse

Space

Solar eclipse will reveal the roiling fog of plasma we call home

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Royal Maritime Museum

Space

Bringing the Royal Observatory at Greenwich back to life

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Victor M. Blanco Telescope and stars

Space

New sky survey shows that dark energy may one day tear us apart

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Exploding lightbulb

Technology

Eight great accidents in scientific discovery

Features

Enormous exoplanet has an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron

Space

Enormous exoplanet has an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron

A planet nearly double the size of Jupiter and 900 light years away has a glowing stratosphere and an atmosphere hot enough that iron there exists as a vapour

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Space

Finding the first pulsar set my world spinning

Features

Space

Building blocks of alien cells found on Saturn’s largest moon

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Earth

Earth's underwater dunes help explain Venus's weird surface

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Space

When is a black hole not a black hole? When it’s a boson star

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