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The brightest stellar wildfire hosts impossibly huge stars

Space

The brightest stellar wildfire hosts impossibly huge stars

The 30 Doradus nebula is forming stars in a flat-out sprint, outpacing the local Milky Way by four orders of magnitude. Bring sunblock

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A drone hovers in a forest

Technology

Expensive drones take flying lessons from cheaper stunt doubles

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Triple signal of ‘alien megastructure’ star baffles astronomers

Space

Triple signal of ‘alien megastructure’ star baffles astronomers

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rocket factory

Space

Inside NASA's towering rocket factory before deep space mission

Regulars

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is making its atmosphere hotter

Space

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is making its atmosphere hotter

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Bye bye Philae! Comet team to lose touch with lander for good

Space

Bye bye Philae! Comet team to lose touch with lander for good

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Astronauts prepare for Mars mission at the bottom of the sea

Space

Astronauts prepare for Mars mission at the bottom of the sea

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Flying-saucer-like craft swoops over rocky terrain with Saturn-like world on the horizon

Space

Six science fiction novels you should be reading

Culture

Astronauts on the International Space Station with many flags on panel behind them

Space

No more space race rhetoric: it's not just about the US any more

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The Red Planet

Space

Next-gen Mars orbiters to help human missions become more real

NASA has funded studies to investigate how new orbiter spacecraft can best serve a human ground crew on Mars for a potential mission in the 2020s

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Space

Einstein's clock: The doomed black hole to set your watch by

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Space

SpaceX launches DNA sequencer and new docking port to the ISS

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Space

Mysterious swoosh caused by pulsars hugging companions close

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Space

Baby stars grow big and strong by eating their own burst bubbles

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