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A mission to Alpha Centauri affirms humanity’s faith in the future
Designing and building spacecraft that can traverse 4.3 light years in just two decades is an unprecedented challenge, but one well worth undertaking
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First ever picture of a black hole may be revealed this week
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Stunning picture shows dead star racing away from a massive explosion
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Four stars full of burnt nuclear ash are speeding through the galaxy
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The Milky Way may be slowly devouring a hidden neighbouring galaxy
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Thousands of Elite Dangerous players embark on epic space voyage
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Radio wave bursts from space keep hitting Earth and we don’t know why
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Physics
Watch: Very Large Telescope uses giant lasers in hunt for black holes
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World’s most powerful telescope takes us to the edge of a black hole
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A new dwarf planet called Farout is the most distant we鈥檝e ever seen
Astronomers have spotted a tiny world 18 billion kilometres away, the most distant dwarf planet we鈥檝e ever seen, and it may help us find the elusive Planet X
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Life
Don’t miss: a game to make you suffer and a new post-apocalyptic film
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LIGO found four more pairs of black holes, including the biggest yet
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Mystery 鈥渟pace cow鈥� is a weird new type of powerful space explosion
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Two new rogue planets that do not orbit stars have been discovered
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