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Of presidents and planets: Neil deGrasse Tyson looks ahead
Donald Trump’s election alarmed many scientists. Neil deGrasse Tyson takes a cosmic perspective, reflects on Obama’s legacy and considers the road to Mars
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Physics
Cosmic radio bursts tracked to home galaxy for first time
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Physics
LIGO should more than double its gravitational wave haul in 2017
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Space
Fresh look at old data shows the sun is surprisingly sluggish
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Physics
Galaxy’s rapid growth spurt may have spawned 3000 suns per year
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Space
Dark energy could force the universe to gradually unzip itself
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Space
Milky Way’s baby brother caught copying its star shredding habit
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Physics
Robot eyes are catching up with our exploding cosmos
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Space
Biggest radio telescope on Earth ready to receive alien signals
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Space
Saturn’s rings may be from the whirl of a passing icy rock
The direction an unlucky planetoid is spinning may dictate how much of it gets pulverised and pulled into orbit to create the bands around the giant planets
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Physics
First glimpse of a black hole being born from a star’s remains
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Physics
Shadow worlds: Have we seen our first glimpse of dark forces?
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Space
NASA gets in touch with spacecraft two years after it vanished
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Technology
US Air Force wants to plasma bomb the sky using tiny satellites
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