Physics
First glimpse of lost library of Elizabethan polymath John Dee
The huge collection of books belonging to Dr John Dee, adviser to Queen Elizabeth I and proto-modern scientist, is being exhibited for the first time
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Life
Star Wars universe passes real-world test for alien head count
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Space
Public vote renames planets after gods, monsters and scientists
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Space
Stargazing through the bottom of a glass
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Life
Two missions face off to seek life in icy seas of Enceladus
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Needle formation lets space rubble sneak up on us
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Space
Prodigal gas cloud was born in Milky Way and is crashing back in
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Space
Little galaxy’s own stars cast 95 per cent of its oxygen away
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Space
Japanese Akatsuki probe enters Venus orbit after inspired hack
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Space
New Horizons releases first images of Pluto in sharpest focus
A just-released series of images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft are the first to show the icy world at the highest resolution possible, taken as the probe flew almost directly overhead
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Life
Pairs of habitable worlds could throw microbes at each other
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Space
A threesome may explain behaviour of galaxy’s most bizarre star
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Physics
Weirdly tilted planet knocks formation theory out of line
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Space
Thieving Milky Way stole distant star cluster from neighbour
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