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Large Magellanic Cloud

Space

A cosmic collision may be coming for our galaxy sooner than we thought

The nearby Large Magellanic Cloud may be on a collision course with the Milky Way - and it could make our galaxy less strange when they smash in 2 billion years

News

Geraint Lewis: What is the fate of our universe?

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Geraint Lewis: What is the fate of our universe?

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Chamkaur Ghag: The hunt for dark matter

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Chamkaur Ghag: The hunt for dark matter

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Emma Chapman: The first stars in the universe

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Emma Chapman: The first stars in the universe

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An explosion in space

Physics

The Higgs boson may have stopped the early universe from collapsing

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multiverse

Space

How to think about... The multiverse

Features

The Milky Way has devoured 15 other galaxies since it formed

Space

The Milky Way has devoured 15 other galaxies since it formed

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Watch the weird new solutions to the baffling three-body problem

Physics

Watch the weird new solutions to the baffling three-body problem

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Interstellar cloud mapped by listening to its magnetic waves

Space

Interstellar cloud mapped by listening to its magnetic waves

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space

Space

Pushing the boundaries: A round-up of new popular science books

From the hunt for a theory of everything to the complex Rosetta mission, there’s treasure to be found in a trawl of some of the recent popular science writing

Culture

Space

Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell explores Bach's cosmic music

Culture

Humans

Hawking's global warnings divided opinion but the world listened

Comment

Physics

Why the big bang was not the beginning

Features

Space

Truth before beauty: Our universe is uglier than we thought

Features