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Gas giant exoplanet in front of star

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Puffed-up exoplanets inflate with heat from their stars alone

A recently discovered exoplanet suggests that hot Jupiters are bigger than expected because they absorb their host star’s powerful radiation

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Artist's depiction of a pulsar approaching a disc of rubble

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Mystery radio bursts may be pulsars bumping into asteroids

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World's largest telescope array takes its deepest view yet

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World's largest telescope array takes its deepest view yet

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A black hole swallowing a star

Space

Reality guide: Six problems physics can't explain

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A simulation of the structure of the galaxy

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Reality guide: The essential laws of cosmology

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Ripples

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Reality guide: The essential laws of quantum physics

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A stream of information flowing down a screen

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Reality guide: Six radical ideas to change physics

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Gaia's new star map will also reveal asteroids and dark matter

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Gaia's new star map will also reveal asteroids and dark matter

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Stars group together to form a bright band in the middle of the image, Gaia's first map of the sky

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Gaia’s map of 1 billion stars is the clearest view of our galaxy

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A field of bright dots

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Star arrangement that hid for a decade spotted at galaxy’s heart

A dense cluster of stars orbiting the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has played hide-and-seek with astronomers for years – now we've finally seen it

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Tiny lightning bolt explosions can vaporise the moon’s thin soil

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Dark matter clumps may have punched through star stream

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Physics

Dark force hunter wants to make darkness from light

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Shadow worlds: Have we seen our first glimpse of dark forces?

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