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James Webb space telescope

CSI Eta Carinae: Clouds suggest odd star's history of violence

Space

CSI Eta Carinae: Clouds suggest odd star's history of violence

A strange star called Eta Carinae erupted like a supernova in 1843, yet lived to tell the tale. New observations reveal two earlier outbursts

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Stars burning strangely make life in the multiverse more likely

Life

Stars burning strangely make life in the multiverse more likely

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SpaceX rocket blows up during routine test ahead of launch

Space

SpaceX rocket blows up during routine test ahead of launch

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Russian telescope

Life

Mysterious signal unlikely to be aliens after SETI draws a blank

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The RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya

Life

Mysterious SETI signal sends alien-hunting telescopes scrambling

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Proxima b’s star could be blasting away the planet’s atmosphere

Life

Proxima b’s star could be blasting away the planet’s atmosphere

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Tale of world of supersmart spiders takes Clarke SF award

Space

Tale of world of supersmart spiders takes Clarke SF award

Culture

illustration of a planet in silhouette with a star behind

Space

Proxima b: 7 big questions about the new planet next door

Analysis

Proxima B

Space

Getting to Proxima b might become an existential requirement

Leader

a yellow sail, a bit like a starfish

Space

Interstellar probes will be eroded on the way to Alpha Centauri

If Breakthrough Starshot launches tiny spacecraft to our nearest star system at one-fifth light speed, they will have to survive bombardment with interstellar dust

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Space

NASA gets in touch with spacecraft two years after it vanished

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Space

China launches world's first quantum communications satellite

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Space

The brightest stellar wildfire hosts impossibly huge stars

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Space

Triple signal of ‘alien megastructure’ star baffles astronomers

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