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Milky Way’s bulge may have been formed by the galaxy buckling

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Milky Way’s bulge may have been formed by the galaxy buckling

The origin of the bump at the centre of many disc galaxies has long puzzled astronomers, but now there’s evidence it could be due to a cosmic kink

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China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST)

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China builds world’s largest radio telescope to hunt for aliens

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Inside the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector

Physics

Neutrinos hint at why antimatter didn't blow up the universe

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Artist's impression of an alien world

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Impossible vanishing stars could be signs of advanced alien life

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Illustration of a supernovae

Space

Supernovae 2 million years ago may have changed human behaviour

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Conceptual image of the big bang

Space

Bully particle beats up atoms to fix cosmic accounting glitch

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Artist's impression of a star eating a planet

Space

Flamingo stars turn pink when they gobble iron-rich planets

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Colourful topographic map of Mercury

Space

First global Mercury map shows its hills and valleys in detail

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Big Ben poppers

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Feedback: Poppers burn a hole in the UK's blanket drugs ban

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LIGO could catch dark matter made of black holes

The black holes that kicked off the first detection of gravitational waves seem to be the right size and frequency to be long-sought primordial black holes

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Four big cosmology secrets gravitational waves could uncover

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Earth

Record-breaking double star may be cannibalising itself

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Interstellar's true black hole too confusing

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Stellar tantrum

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