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Brightest cosmic burst has record-breaking stamina

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Brightest cosmic burst has record-breaking stamina

A gamma-ray burst that lasted for 20 hours cannot be explained by standard models of such events, opening up a fresh mystery about their nature

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Sunny fix would let defunct Kepler hunt planets again

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Sunny fix would let defunct Kepler hunt planets again

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Dancing rainbows reveal Kepler's exoplanet families

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Dancing rainbows reveal Kepler's exoplanet families

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Forgotten force: The other great cosmic attractor

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Forgotten force: The other great cosmic attractor

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Fake planets reveal distance to Earth's nearest twin

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Astrophile: Evil twin planet makes other Earths likely

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Astrophile: Evil twin planet makes other Earths likely

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Exoplanet hunters may find ET by glut of alien corpses

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Exoplanet hunters may find ET by glut of alien corpses

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Earth's super-siblings grew up very differently

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Golden wrapper to protect Milky Way mapper

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Golden wrapper to protect Milky Way mapper

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'Black glass' could be first comet chunk found on Earth

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'Black glass' could be first comet chunk found on Earth

Chemical clues hint that the strange stone found in the Egyptian desert comes from a comet that exploded near Earth 28 million years ago

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How to sniff aliens' gas in exoplanet atmospheres

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Space

Astrophile: Lost moon Naiad swims back into view

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Space

First weather report on an extrasolar planet

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Hot Jupiters push exoplanet count over 1000 milestone

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