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Newborn stars, hidden behind thick dust, are revealed in this image of a section of the so-called Christmas Tree Cluster from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The newly revealed infant stars appear as pink and red specks toward the center and appear to have formed in regularly spaced intervals along linear structures in a configuration that resembles the spokes of a wheel or the pattern of a snowflake. Hence, astronomers have nicknamed this the

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Sun-like stars may go through brighter phases as they grow up

Computer modelling supports the idea that nascent stars brighten dramatically during growth spurts, which could explain an astrophysical mystery

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Planet Earth and Sun. Elements of this image furnished by NASA.

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Mysterious origin of Earth's water may be explained by solar wind

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WHY does time only move forward?

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Why does time only move forwards? Possibly just because we’re ignorant

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Albert Einstein

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Lost in Space-Time newsletter: Will a twisted universe save cosmology?

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Artist's impression of `Oumuamua

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Earth may have grown around a rock from an alien star system

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Tardigrade

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Tardigrades could survive interstellar travel in extreme hibernation

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Blue Origin space station

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Can Blue Origin help replace the International Space Station?

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Satellites and junk are littering space and ruining our night skies

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Satellites and junk are littering space and ruining our night skies

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Steve Chien interview: Why NASA is inventing curious AI for deep space

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Steve Chien interview: Why NASA is inventing curious AI for deep space

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How the Hubble Telescope opened a new window on the cosmos

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How the Hubble Telescope opened a new window on the cosmos

The Hubble Space Telescope's journey to the sky was a bumpy one, but it was well worth the effort, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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UAE will send spacecraft to visit Venus and land on an asteroid

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Weird white dwarf that is colder than it should be defies explanation

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Blue Origin is taking Star Trek’s William Shatner to space for real

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Tim Peake: The future of humans in space

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