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An artist's impression of the surface of a newly discovered super-Earth

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Super-Earth spotted hiding in plain sight around neighbouring star

After years of searching, a planet several times larger than Earth has been discovered orbiting Barnard’s star – the closest star to Earth after the Alpha Centauri system

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Mystery “space cow” is a weird new type of powerful space explosion

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Mystery “space cow” is a weird new type of powerful space explosion

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Enceladus

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NASA is giving advice to Yuri Milner's private mission to Enceladus

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Emma Chapman: The first stars in the universe

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Emma Chapman: The first stars in the universe

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The Kepler spacecraft is dead but its planet-hunting legacy lives on

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The Kepler spacecraft is dead but its planet-hunting legacy lives on

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Didier Queloz: The search for habitable exoplanets

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Didier Queloz: The search for habitable exoplanets

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Stephen Fairhurst: Gravitational wave hunting

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Stephen Fairhurst: Gravitational wave hunting

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Our best planet-hunting telescope has come to the end of its mission

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Our best planet-hunting telescope has come to the end of its mission

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Emma Bunce: Inside the BepiColombo probe's mission to Mercury

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Emma Bunce: Inside the BepiColombo probe's mission to Mercury

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The grand canyon and the milky way

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Winners of the astronomy photo prize reveal the beauty of the universe

Brad Goldpaint has won Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2018 thanks to a fantastic image of the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy above the Grand Canyon

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7 explanations for why mysterious radio bursts are coming from space

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Let’s embrace the joy of moonmoons and more playful scientific terms

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Mysterious cosmic radio signal spotted unusually close to Earth

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Tim Peake: To the ends of the Earth and beyond

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