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cosmology

Victor M. Blanco Telescope and stars

Space

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

The best cosmic map yet of the universe’s make-up finds 24 per cent less dark matter than we thought and could call for a rewrite of physics

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Milky Way visible in the sky above some mountains

Space

Half the atoms inside your body came from across the universe

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Diagram showing three-body system

Space

The cosmic dance of three dead stars could break relativity

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Galaxy supercluster is one of the biggest things in the universe

Space

Galaxy supercluster is one of the biggest things in the universe

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Person throws up at hands standing at blackboard covered in equations

Physics

Five things physicists hate about physics

Features

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

Space

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

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Pointer on circular weighing scales

Physics

Protons are lighter than thought, which may solve a big puzzle

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Diagram of a buckyball

Space

Buckyballs mysteriously show up in cold space and warp starlight

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Astronomer looking through telescope

Space

Time to embrace our odd place in the cosmos, inside a huge void?

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Photo of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko taken by the Rosetta spacecraft

Earth

The mystery xenon in Earth’s atmosphere came from icy comets

The moon is younger than we thought according to data from the Rosetta spacecraft that shows 22 per cent of our atmospheric xenon came from comets

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Space

The Higgs bang: The particle that blew up the universe

Features

Space

Huge impact could have smashed early Earth into a doughnut shape

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Earth

Odds on: Five scientific theories decided by wager

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Space

Neutron stars that slow down could be eating 'backwards' gas

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