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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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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Space
Baby star illuminates icy wall between rocky planets and giants
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Milky Way’s bulge may have been formed by the galaxy buckling
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China builds world’s largest radio telescope to hunt for aliens
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Physics
Neutrinos hint at why antimatter didn’t blow up the universe
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Impossible vanishing stars could be signs of advanced alien life
Finding extraterrestrial civilisations with technology far beyond our own could be as simple as catching stars or galaxies in a disappearing act
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Humans
Supernovae 2 million years ago may have changed human behaviour
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Bully particle beats up atoms to fix cosmic accounting glitch
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Flamingo stars turn pink when they gobble iron-rich planets
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First global Mercury map shows its hills and valleys in detail
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