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Astronomy

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Maya mathematician’s name decoded alongside astronomical formula

Hieroglyphs on the wall of a Maya building record calculations concerning the orbits of Earth, Mars and Venus, as well as the name of a mathematician who wrote the text around 1200 years ago

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Space

The most detailed survey of the universe ever conducted starts now

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Space

We may have finally solved cosmology’s chicken-or-the-egg problem

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A spherical rocky body being destroyed in a collision.

Space

Hundreds of new moons are revealing our solar system’s violent history

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Space

A cosmic case of mistaken identity that can only be solved right now

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Space

How the electromagnetic spectrum opened our eyes to the universe

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Space

Millions of planets might form around supermassive black holes

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Tiny frozen world unexpectedly appears to have an atmosphere

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Largest ever map of universe captures 47 million galaxies and quasars

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artist's concept of comet 41P

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We鈥檝e caught a comet switching its spin direction for the first time

A small comet has been spotted slowing down and then speeding up again 鈥� but in the opposite direction, which we have never seen before

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Mysterious comet disintegration caught by telescope after lucky break

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Why a Peruvian mountain is becoming an ‘impossible’ particle detector

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We’ve spotted the strongest microwave laser in the known universe

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Gravitational wave signal proves Einstein was right about relativity

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