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Our home spiral arm in the Milky Way is less wimpy than thought

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Our home spiral arm in the Milky Way is less wimpy than thought

A new map of the spirals that make up our home galaxy shows that rather than being a dim backwater, the arm that hosts the solar system is just as spectacular as the others

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Plumes spotted on Europa raise hopes that we can taste its ocean

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Plumes spotted on Europa raise hopes that we can taste its ocean

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Farewell to Rosetta, the comet mission that captivated the world

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Saturn

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Saturn’s rings may be from the whirl of a passing icy rock

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UK approves controversial Hinkley C nuclear power plant

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UK approves controversial Hinkley C nuclear power plant

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Physics

Cold fusion: Science's most controversial technology is back

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Physics

Cold fusion is better left out in the cold

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Asteroid assault on early planets was more like a gentle massage

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Asteroid assault on early planets was more like a gentle massage

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67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

Space

Rosetta set for a grand finale by diving into cometary cave

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The dark side of the moon

Space

Tiny lightning bolt explosions can vaporise the moon’s thin soil

If electrical charges build up in cold lunar dust, they might cause tiny explosions, melting and vaporising soil and altering the face of the moon

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NASA probe about to leave for asteroid Bennu and bring bits home

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NASA’s Juno probe snaps first images of Jupiter’s north pole

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Life

Stars burning strangely make life in the multiverse more likely

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Space

Gang of gas giants may have tilted distant planet system

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