Do things crash together or is it more serene?
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Space Exploration
Heroes of Space: Professor Stephen Hawking
We take a look at the life so far of one of the greatest physicists of the modern day.
Deep Space
How close to the edge of a galaxy can planets exist?
Is there such a thing as a ‘galactic habitable zone’?
Astronomy
Heroes of Space: Henrietta Swan Leavitt
On this day in 1868 an unsung astronomer, who helped to discover our place in the universe, was born
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Is there a centre of the universe?
Gemma Lavender gets to the bottom of this question for us.
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Astronomers finally find the universe’s ‘missing matter’
Ordinary matter, or ‘baryons’, make up all physical objects in existence, from stars to the cores of black holes
Astronomy
Heroes of Space: Clyde Tombaugh
The amateur astronomer who discovered Pluto and visited the dwarf planet after his death
Deep Space
What is a magnetar?
Is a magnetar some kind of magnetic star? Find out here
Deep Space
Where did the first particles of light come from?
The very first particles of light came from somewhere. We find out where
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What shape is space?
There’s plenty of it, so what shape do we think the universe is?
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What makes hypervelocity stars move so fast?
We take a look at what causes these stars to speed across the universe
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Stephen Hawking: “I was playing poker with Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton and Commander Data on the Starship Enterprise!”
Back in 2014, we caught up with the great scientist to get his thoughts on the universe, his cameo in Star Trek: The Next Generation and why we could be living in a hologram
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Early galaxies found to rotate like whirlpools
The gas within the galactic structures, which were formed less then a billion years after the Big Bang, have been discovered to have a ‘swirling’ behaviour
Deep Space
Alien megastructure confirmed as unlikely cause of star’s weird behaviour
A team of more than 200 researchers is one step closer to solving the mystery behind Tabby’s Star
Solar System
It’s Christmas on Mars! But does it snow on the Red Planet?
Could the fourth rock from the Sun have a white Christmas?
Deep Space
Astronomers discover multiple supermassive black hole pairings
Fewer than ten of these double gigantic high-gravity objects were known previously
Deep Space
Record-breaking, low-oxygen galaxy provides snapshot into early universe
Dwarf galaxy J0811+4730 may serve well as a proxy for better understanding the developing chemistry of the young cosmos
Deep Space
Dark matter likely to be cold rather than ‘fuzzy’, suggests new study
An international team of cosmologists have used data from the intergalactic medium – the vast, largely empty space between galaxies – to narrow down what dark matter could be
News
FREE PREVIEW: All About Space issue 67
We reveal what really happened the day we landed on the Moon in the latest issue – available now from all good supermarkets and newsagents
Space Exploration
Goodbye, LISA Pathfinder: ESA deactivates gravitational wave mission
The spacecraft has been switched off as planned on the evening of 18 July, ending its successful mission which surpassed all expectations