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Astronomers have spotted the largest known object in the universe
The Quipu superstructure is enormous, spanning 1.4 billion light years 鈥� and it could violate one of our fundamental assumptions about the universe
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The best new science fiction books of February 2025
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These interstellar spaceship designs are wildly impractical
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory gets started next year. I can’t wait
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The best space images from 2024
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Exoplanet plate tectonics: A new frontier in the hunt for alien life
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Having a baby on Mars? You may be in for a difficult time
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This bold, experimental slice of deep-space sci-fi is just brilliant
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Millions of phones create most complete map ever of the ionosphere
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Orbital wins the Booker prize: 鈥淚 see it as a kind of space pastoral”
Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the International Space Station
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What preparing for an asteroid strike teaches us about climate change
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If an asteroid were heading towards Earth, could you avert disaster?
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Complex form of carbon spotted outside solar system for first time
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10 stunning James Webb Space Telescope images show the beauty of space
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