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solar system

Space

Your explosive guide to the end of the universe

Our sun will swell, our galaxy will collide with its neighbour and the universe could suddenly be swallowed by a vacuum bubble

Emilie du Chatelet

Physics

The bold, brilliant woman who championed Newton’s physics

A tadpole galaxy with a bright head and dimmer tail

Space

Tadpole galaxy spawns stars after eating invisible gas cloud

Space

Time capsule galaxy can help probe conditions after the big bang

Red flash at the centre of dusty ring

Physics

Cannibal stars explode violently 鈥� as predicted by Darwin’s son

gravastar

Physics

Was gravitational wave signal from a gravastar, not black holes?

Totality by Katie Paterson

Syzygy exhibition squeezes cosmic wonders into everyday objects

Artist's imression of Hitomi

Space

Japanese satellite’s death spiral linked to software malfunction

cosmic background radiation

Physics

That’s odd: Axis of evil stretches across the cosmos

Red-tinted mirror suspended along with other objects

Physics

Gravitational wave hunters gear up to detect extreme black holes

The LIGO experiment only recently made the first sighting of gravitational waves, but already the team is preparing for their next feat

Mind

It’s mind-blowing what our puny brains can do

Space

The play X will have you clock-watching – but in a good way

Physics

Physics adventures down the superfluid supersonic black hole

Physics

Our galaxy’s impossible collision could break gravity