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Alien life could spread between solar systems on interstellar rocks

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Alien life could spread between solar systems on interstellar rocks

Researchers have calculated that living organisms may be able to hitch a ride aboard interstellar rocks to spread not only between planets, but across the galaxy

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Mysterious cosmic radio signal spotted unusually close to Earth

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night sky

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Inside the stargazer's paradise where all outside lights are banned

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Dwarf galaxy

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Dark matter blasted by star explosions may explain misfit galaxies

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The Milky Way and satellite galaxies

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Oldest galaxies in the universe discovered right on our doorstep

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We've just seen a huge space explosion and don't know what it is

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We've just seen a huge space explosion and don't know what it is

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The Milky Way has devoured 15 other galaxies since it formed

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The Milky Way has devoured 15 other galaxies since it formed

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Stars from outside the Milky Way seen zooming through the galaxy

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Stars from outside the Milky Way seen zooming through the galaxy

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We’ve mapped 90 per cent of the stars in our bit of the galaxy

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We’ve mapped 90 per cent of the stars in our bit of the galaxy

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Our understanding of the universe's expansion is really wrong

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Our understanding of the universe's expansion is really wrong

Last week, the Gaia spacecraft released the best 3D map of our galaxy, which revealed scars in the Milky Way and deepened confusion about how fast the cosmos is expanding

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Biggest ever 3D map of the galaxy pinpoints 1.7 billion stars

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Shredded galaxy is disintegrating before our eyes after smash-up

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The neon swirls that show how a map of our galaxy is made

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We see neutrinos from the big bang in the way galaxies cluster

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