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Photo of comet 67P/Churyumov鈥揋erasimenko taken by the Rosetta spacecraft

Earth

The mystery xenon in Earth鈥檚 atmosphere came from icy comets

The moon is younger than we thought according to data from the Rosetta spacecraft that shows 22 per cent of our atmospheric xenon came from comets

big bang

Space

The Higgs bang: The particle that blew up the universe

Diagram of the shape of a synestia 鈥� like a red blood cell or a doughnut

Space

Huge impact could have smashed early Earth into a doughnut shape

Picture of Earth looking very round and blue

Earth

Odds on: Five scientific theories decided by wager

Artist's impression of neutron star in binary object

Space

Neutron stars that slow down could be eating ‘backwards’ gas

exoplanet

Space

Volunteers spot four super-Earths orbiting sun-like star

space

Space

New approach to dark energy might explain our cooling universe

telescope

Space

Earth-sized telescope set to snap first picture of a black hole

Binary star system

Physics

Gravitational waves slow the spin of shape-shifting neutron star

coldest place

Space

The coldest place in the universe marks a double stellar grave

New observations finally reveal why an odd planetary nebula is so chilly: two stars met their end in close quarters

Humans

Inside knowledge: What wisdom will live on once we’re gone

Space

Win a pair of signed books by Lawrence M. Krauss

Space

The many-tentacled galaxy that could drive a physics revolution

Space

Cosmological ruler could help us get the measure of dark energy