Physics
Black hole feasting may help crack four cosmic puzzles
The supermassive black hole at our galaxy's heart has started gobbling a cloud of gas. Watching the feast could help us solve four long-standing mysteries
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Life
New play shines light across time on women astronomers
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Space
Astrophile: Searing hot exoplanet is an unearthly blue
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Space
Astrophile: Searing hot exoplanet is an unearthly blue
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Space
Sun’s cosmic ray shadow is solar storm predictor
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Life
UK proposes piggy-backing to search for alien signals
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Space
Mystery radio bursts blamed on black hole ‘blitzars’
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Space
Astrophile: Clingy planet makes stellar parent flip
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Earth
Blast from the past: Solving the Tunguska mystery
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Physics
Cosmic preheating baked planets, stars and people
A new model bridges the gap between the cold, empty universe after inflation and the dense, hot soup that gave rise to all matter
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Space
New lease of life for hobbled planet-hunter Kepler
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Space
Old Mars rover digs up evidence for drinkable water
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Space
Sublime images to inspire an off-Earth generation
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Space
Obese black holes outshone stars in earliest galaxies
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