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astronomy

Stray supermassive black hole flung away by gravitational waves

Space

Stray supermassive black hole flung away by gravitational waves

The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a one-billion solar mass black hole fleeing its galaxy, showing supermassive black holes can probably merge

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Illustration of the plumes at Enceladus's south pole

Space

Enigmatic plumes from Saturn’s moon caused by cosmic collision

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space cartoon

Space

A little less ET, a little more astrophysics, if you please

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Could fast radio bursts really be powering alien space ships?

Space

Could fast radio bursts really be powering alien space ships?

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NASA's new budget is big on other worlds but ignores our own

Space

NASA's new budget is big on other worlds but ignores our own

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Pluto and Charon

Space

Discovery of tiny moon completes the set for worlds past Neptune

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telescope 1

Technology

How to dust a telescope’s 78-square-metre mirror with CO2

Regulars

Voyager 1 looked back at Saturn on Nov. 16, 1980, four days after the spacecraft flew past the planet

Space

Voyager 1 might have seen Enceladus’ icy plumes 25 years early

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The Milky Way

Space

Family tree of stars helps reconstruct Milky Way's formation

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Future astronauts will need places to live on Mars

Space

New NASA teams will make human Mars missions light and efficient

NASA just funded two new institutes to develop technology for future space missions: one to make lighter materials, one to help build with the resources on Mars itself

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Space

Mars landing sites for 2020 NASA mission down to the final three

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Space

Magnetic meteorites narrow down solar system’s birthdate

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Space

NASA wants to put a lander on Europa’s surface to look for life

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Space

Have we found evidence that we live in a holographic universe?

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