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Earth’s underwater dunes help explain Venus’s weird surface
Some of the properties of wind and dust on Venus may be similar to those of water and sediment at the bottom of our oceans
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When is a black hole not a black hole? When it’s a boson star
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Space
Premier exoplanet hunter on finding the first alien world
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Space
Weird orbits hint ‘Planet Ten’ might lurk at solar system edge
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Time to embrace our odd place in the cosmos, inside a huge void?
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Spectrum wars: The battle for the airwaves
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Physics
Mistaken brown dwarf is actually two planets orbiting each other
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Space
The hottest planet yet is twice Jupiter’s size and hot as a star
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LIGO’s third detection hints at how black hole binaries are born
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Weird energy beam seems to travel five times the speed of light
Astrophile is Joshua Sokol's monthly column on curious cosmic objects, from the solar system to the far reaches of the multiverse
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Space
Astronomers scramble as ‘alien megastructure’ star dims again
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LIGO could detect gravitational waves’ permanent space-time warp
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Titan’s riverbeds show a terrain built more like Mars than Earth
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Waves surge in opposite directions around Io’s largest lava lake
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