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The New Horizons spacecraft is heading towards a mystery rock

Physics

The New Horizons spacecraft is heading towards a mystery rock

After its visit to Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft is travelling through the Kuiper belt towards what seems to be one rock - but what if it's actually two?

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A 300-kilometre space rock has vanished since we saw it in 1995

Space

A 300-kilometre space rock has vanished since we saw it in 1995

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Solar eclipse

Space

Solar eclipse will reveal the roiling fog of plasma we call home

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Diagram showing three-body system

Space

The cosmic dance of three dead stars could break relativity

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Diagram of a buckyball

Space

Buckyballs mysteriously show up in cold space and warp starlight

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Weird energy beam seems to travel five times the speed of light

Space

Weird energy beam seems to travel five times the speed of light

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Icy Enceladus’s tiger stripes are a window on its watery depths

Space

Icy Enceladus’s tiger stripes are a window on its watery depths

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Galaxy NGC 4258 with its extra tentacles protruding from its middle

Space

The many-tentacled galaxy that could drive a physics revolution

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Artist's impression of asteroid with rings

Space

The upstart asteroid who showed rings are for everybody

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The Galactic Centre and Sagittarius B2 as seen by the ATLASGAL survey

Space

Giant ball of gas is a totally stinky galactic chemistry lab

Sagittarius B2 is a molecular cloud about 100 light years wide near the centre of our galaxy – and it would taste absolutely terrible

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Earth

Window to hell: Io's strongest volcano changes face as we watch

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Space

Space is full of gigantic holes that are bigger than we expected

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Space

The warps in space that make Einstein's perfect cosmic accident

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Space

The brightest stellar wildfire hosts impossibly huge stars

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