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General relativity passes test at Milky Way's central black hole

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General relativity passes test at Milky Way's central black hole

Stars orbiting the supermassive black hole have been used to test Einstein’s famous theory for the first time, with no sign found of a fifth fundamental force

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NASA mission into sun’s atmosphere named after astrophysicist

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Saturn’s moons could reassemble after a cosmic smash-up

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Saturn’s moons could reassemble after a cosmic smash-up

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Diagram of the shape of a synestia – like a red blood cell or a doughnut

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Huge impact could have smashed early Earth into a doughnut shape

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Brendan Cowell as Galileo, Alex Murdoch as Little Monk

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��𳦳��’s Life of Galileo pumped up for the 21st century

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Titan’s riverbeds show a terrain built more like Mars than Earth

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Titan’s riverbeds show a terrain built more like Mars than Earth

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power plant picture

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What the end of the atomic renaissance means for nuclear power

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meteorites landing on early Earth

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Microbes might thrive after crash-landing on board a meteorite

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Stars can start shining at a smaller mass than we thought

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Stars can start shining at a smaller mass than we thought

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Picture of Earth looking very round and blue

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Odds on: Five scientific theories decided by wager

From the existence of black holes to the reality of climate change, over the years some big questions have been the subject of bets, finds Michael Brooks

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Neptune-like exoplanet spotted that has a watery atmosphere

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NASA rocket mission takes 1500 sun images in just 5 minutes

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Waves surge in opposite directions around Io's largest lava lake

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Earth may have been born in a huge flare-up of the young sun

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