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Planets around a young star

Space

A massive collision may have made Jupiter's core so weird

A few years ago we learned Jupiter’s core is much messier than expected. Now simulations suggest a huge collision with a planetary embryo could explain why

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Antarctic snow amid mountains

Space

Radioactive dust in Antarctic ice could help map interstellar clouds

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Milky Way's black hole has got 75 times brighter and we don't know why

Space

Milky Way's black hole has got 75 times brighter and we don't know why

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UK's biggest moon exhibition captures centuries of lunar love

Space

UK's biggest moon exhibition captures centuries of lunar love

Culture

3D map of the Milky Way

Space

Best ever map of Milky Way shows our galaxy is warped in an S-shape

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LightSail 2 above the Earth

Space

LightSail 2 has used sunlight alone to steer around Earth

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Before building another telescope, learn from Hawaiian culture

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Before building another telescope, learn from Hawaiian culture

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Nasa's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

Space

Three newly discovered exoplanets orbit a star 73 light years away

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Awkward truths about Boris Johnson's praise for UK science and tech

Technology

Awkward truths about Boris Johnson's praise for UK science and tech

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women on the ISS

Space

After years of sexism in space we urgently need more female astronauts

Getting more women into space is essential if we're ever to run longer missions or even set up colonies off-planet. To do so we need a better understanding of how human bodies will cope in outer space

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Space

What happened when the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet smashed into Jupiter

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Space

Tiny pebbles may be the reason most planets spin in the same direction

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Space

LightSail 2 unfurls solar sail and begins travelling through space

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Space

India has launched its Chandrayaan 2 mission to the moon

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