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Atmosphere containing water detected around rocky exoplanet
An exoplanet just 1.4 times the size of Earth has an atmosphere containing water and methane, new observations show
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Earth-sized telescope set to snap first picture of a black hole
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Physics
Oldest dust ever spotted in the universe seen in distant galaxy
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Physics
Gravitational waves slow the spin of shape-shifting neutron star
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Environment
NASA orbiter shows Mars lost 90 per cent of its CO2 to space
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Backwards asteroid shares an orbit with Jupiter without crashing
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The coldest place in the universe marks a double stellar grave
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Stray supermassive black hole flung away by gravitational waves
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Enigmatic plumes from Saturn’s moon caused by cosmic collision
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A little less ET, a little more astrophysics, if you please
The role of science is to rule out the boring and tedious before we embrace the extraordinary, like alien signals or "megastructures", says Geraint Lewis
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Could fast radio bursts really be powering alien space ships?
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NASA’s new budget is big on other worlds but ignores our own
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Discovery of tiny moon completes the set for worlds past Neptune
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How to dust a telescope’s 78-square-metre mirror with CO2
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