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A binary start system with a white dwarf pulling material off its partner star

Space

Speedy white dwarf may have survived a rare type of supernova

Type Iax supernovae are weak enough that part of the exploding star may be able to survive. Now, we may have spotted the first star that lived to tell the tale

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Image of Mars from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Ice at Mars’s equator hints the planet was once much more tilted

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Victor M. Blanco Telescope and stars

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

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Milky Way visible in the sky above some mountains

Space

Half the atoms inside your body came from across the universe

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Diagram showing three-body system

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The cosmic dance of three dead stars could break relativity

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Galaxy supercluster is one of the biggest things in the universe

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Galaxy supercluster is one of the biggest things in the universe

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Person throws up at hands standing at blackboard covered in equations

Physics

Five things physicists hate about physics

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When is a black hole not a black hole? When it’s a boson star

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When is a black hole not a black hole? When it’s a boson star

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Pointer on circular weighing scales

Physics

Protons are lighter than thought, which may solve a big puzzle

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Diagram of a buckyball

Space

Buckyballs mysteriously show up in cold space and warp starlight

These molecular carbon cages could be used as tracers to understand how prebiotic molecules form in space

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Space

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

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Earth

The mystery xenon in Earth’s atmosphere came from icy comets

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Space

The Higgs bang: The particle that blew up the universe

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Huge impact could have smashed early Earth into a doughnut shape

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