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Royal Maritime Museum

Space

Bringing the Royal Observatory at Greenwich back to life

For the first time in 60 years astronomy could be reborn in one of its most iconic locations, the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London

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Victor M. Blanco Telescope and stars

Space

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

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Exploding lightbulb

Technology

Eight great accidents in scientific discovery

Features

Enormous exoplanet has an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron

Space

Enormous exoplanet has an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Space

Finding the first pulsar set my world spinning

Features

Titan

Space

Building blocks of alien cells found on Saturn’s largest moon

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Underwater sand dunes

Earth

Earth's underwater dunes help explain Venus's weird surface

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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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Didier Queloz

Space

Premier exoplanet hunter on finding the first alien world

Features

An artist's impression of Planet Ten

Space

Weird orbits hint 'Planet Ten' might lurk at solar system edge

Astronomers studying icy objects in a distant region called the Kuiper belt say an unconfirmed planet with similar mass to Mars could be responsible for tugging them out of alignment

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Space

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

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Space

Spectrum wars: The battle for the airwaves

Features

Space

Mistaken brown dwarf is actually two planets orbiting each other

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Space

The hottest planet yet is twice Jupiter’s size and hot as a star

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