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Graph showing the gravitational wave signal from LIGO

Space

Gravitational waves: Your cheat sheet on the find of the decade

When space-time ripples, what does it ripple into? Find the answers to this and more not-so-dumb questions in our ultimate gravitational-wave primer

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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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Mercury crossing the sun

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How to watch Mercury pass in front of the sun today

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swansong earth

Earth

Last days of Earth: Life in 7 billion years AD

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Strange Manx comet is time capsule from the early solar system

Strange Manx comet is time capsule from the early solar system

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Makemake shining brightly, with a small, faint blob just above it and a big arrow pointing to it

Space

Never-before-seen moon spotted around dwarf planet Makemake

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Saturn's rings as seen from space

Space

Cassini gears up for final fiery plunge into Saturn's atmosphere

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Earth

How two tiny dots defy the history of life and the solar system

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The HAWC observatory near the Sierra Nevada volcano in Mexico

Space

Water telescope’s first sky map shows flickering black holes

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Cassini circling Saturn

Space

Saturn probe Cassini hoovers up dust from distant stars

A rare haul of interstellar dust was picked up in orbit around Saturn, and could give us clues to how the solar system formed from the remnants of other stars

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Space

Ease up doom mongers, Planet Nine is not about to destroy us

Comment

Space

Mars moons may have formed after collision with Pluto-like world

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Space

The play X will have you clock-watching - but in a good way

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Space

Planet Nine might be an exoplanet stolen by the sun

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