Physics
Slim and beautiful: Galaxies too good to be true
Pristine spiral galaxies are some of the most stunning sights in the night sky – so perfect that they have cosmologists scratching their heads
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Space
Meet the league of extraordinary supernovae
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Space
Into the breeches: A makeover for Longitude’s villain
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Space
Birthplace of ‘hot Neptunes’ revealed
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Space
Milky Way faces midlife crisis
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Space
No place like home: Our lonesome solar system
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Earth
Alien life may huddle under hydrogen blankets
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Physics
The universe’s first stars were whirling dervishes
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Life
Revelations of stars’ ages will be a boon for SETI
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Space
Empty universe: Cosmology in the year 100 billion
The skies of the far future will be dark and lonely, but our descendants will have one telltale clue to help them decipher the cosmos, says Marcus Chown
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Space
Backward stars point to galactic cannibalism
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Space
Giant ‘quasi-stars’ spawned early black holes
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Space
Eight extremes: The biggest things in the universe
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Space superlatives: The universe’s extreme performers
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