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Scientists discover a supermassive black hole that has taken a record-breaking decade to devour a star twice the size of the Sun — and it is still chewing away.
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Hundreds of believers in life beyond Earth attended the Close Encounters Conference in Byron Bay.
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| UpdatedNASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures an image two gas-rich spiral galaxies that approached each other too closely and are destructively merging into one.
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Astronomers say highly energetic bursts of radio waves found emitted from deep space came from a dwarf galaxy billions of light years away, a game-changing breakthrough that could help us understand what is in the voids between galaxies.
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A team of scientists from Australia and Germany create the most detailed hydrogen map ever produced of the Milky Way, potentially allowing scientists "to look at the sky the other way around".
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How much do you know about the process that kicked off our universe? Take our mind-bending quiz to find out.
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| UpdatedAn unusual cluster of stars in the constellation of Sagittarius is a "living fossil" from the early Milky Way, a team of Italian researchers says.
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| UpdatedNASA's Kepler space telescope discovers 104 new planets outside our solar system, including four that could have Earth-like surfaces.
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| UpdatedSome crazy new physics is needed to explain why our universe isn't just a fading sea of light, and why a miniscule imbalance at the heart of the big bang might have given us life as we know it today.
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The universe is expanding 5 to 9 per cent faster than expected and scientists speculate the finding may be explained by a mysterious force called dark radiation.
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Researchers in Hungary have discovered what they think may be the fifth force of nature, which could be a vital clue to understanding dark matter.
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| UpdatedFamed physicist Professor Brian Greene answers your questions about the universe, the multiverse, and what could be out there.
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| UpdatedA rare burst of energy lasting less than a millisecond that happened around six billion years ago in a galaxy far, far away is tracked to its source by scientists for the first time.
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| UpdatedWe hear a lot about planets orbiting in the Goldilocks Zone and the importance of such an orbit in the search for life beyond Earth, but what exactly is the Goldilocks Zone?
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ANU physicist Dr Bram Slagmolen takes us through why this morning's announcement is significant and how it proves Albert Einstein's theory is correct.
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| UpdatedTiny ripples in the fabric of space-time known as gravitational waves are directly observed for the first time, an international team of scientists announces.
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Hundreds of galaxies hidden from view behind the Milky Way are unveiled in unprecedented detail for the first time by astronomers using Australia's Parkes Radio Telescope.
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| UpdatedAn analysis of five ancient tablets reveals the Babylonians calculated the position of Jupiter using geometry techniques previously believed to have been first used some 1,400 years later in 14th century Europe.
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Massive spheres of stars called globular star clusters may produce new generations of stars by drawing-in fresh supplies of gas from their surrounding galaxy, according to a new study.
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| UpdatedAstronomers studying a lonely planet thought to be floating alone through space have found its host star a trillion kilometres away from it, making it the largest solar system yet found.
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| UpdatedThe universe is really big and trying to understand it will make even the biggest brains hurt. Astronomer Amanda Bauer takes us through her top five mind-expanding things we know (or don't know) about the universe.
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Pluto's heart-shaped Sputnik Planum region is only 10 million years old — far younger than the rest of the dwarf planet — according to a survey of impact craters on the distant world's surface.
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| UpdatedAstronomers detect the most powerful stellar explosion ever seen — a massive supernova, twice as powerful as anything previously recorded.
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| UpdatedAstronomers discover the Moon's tenuous atmosphere expands and contracts, or "breathes", depending on its exposure to the Sun and meteor showers.
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