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First low-frequency fast radio burst to grace our skies detected at last
Nobody knows what these rare speedy electromagnetic spurts really are
Blast from the past: Boffins find the fastest exploding non-supernova star
Eta Carinae's Big Eruption might yet go supernova
Get drinking! Abstinence just as bad for you as getting bladdered
British civil servants go bonkers with no booze, or too much
Build your own NASA space rover: Here are the DIY JPL blueprints
Go on, you know you want to grab these open-source designs and lash them together
Now that's a dodgy Giza: Eggheads claim Great Pyramid can focus electromagnetic waves
And the Leaning Tower of Pisa can pick up BBC World Service
The Solar System's oldest minerals reveal the Sun's violent past
Blue crystals hidden in space rocks open hidden secrets
Hurrah! Boffins finally discover liquid water sloshing around on Mars
Idea was first speculated more than 30 years ago – now hidden lake detected
All that dust on Mars is coming from one weird giant alien structure
Impress pals at the pub by telling them about the creepy-sounding Medusae Fossae
Sorry, Neil Armstrong. Boffins say you may not have been first life-form to set foot on the Moon
Earth's satellite may have been habitable billions of years ago
Alien sun has smashing time sucking up planets
First case of solar suckage
Fukushima reactors lend exotic nuclear finish to California's wines
Smooth body with a perky top note and a hint of cesium-137 for post-2011 vintages
By Jove! Astroboffins spot 12 new spanking moons around Jupiter
Now it has 79 satellites, and one is a tiny 'oddball'
Geoboffins spot hundreds of ghost dunes on Mars
It may have shielded life from harmful rays of radiation billions of years ago
Astroboffins spy the brightest quasar that lit the universe's dark ages
The light has only taken 13 billion years to reach us
Open plan offices flop – you talk less, IM more, if forced to flee a cubicle
Scratch the surface and most of us are misanthropic recluses
Spidey sense is literally tingling! Arachnids detect Earth's electric field, use it to fly away
Video Up, up, and away in my silky eight-legged balloon
Universe slipped Milky Way a sausage galaxy to grow a big belly bulge
It's the largest dwarf galaxy to smash into us yet found
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a giant alien space cigar? Whatever it is, boffins are baffled
Pic Or 'Oumuamua could just be a weird tail-less comet
Galileo, here we go again. My my, the Brits are gonna miss EU
Britain launching its own sat looks more and more likely
NASA eggheads draw up blueprints for spotting, surviving asteroid hits
First America frets about aliens at its borders, now actual alien bodies turning up from space
Geoboffins baffled as Ceres is crawling with carbon organics
Comets might have seeded the surface over millennia
Astroboffins 'sprinkle iron filings' over remnant supernova
And discover it made a magnet that points 'up'
Astroboffins spot planets swimming in the mists of forming stars
New technique looks for patterns in protostars
Solar winds will help ESA probe smell what Mercury's cookin'
Sun's exhalations whip up molecules on planets with weak magnetic fields
Kepler finds three Earth-sized exoplanets, but they're too hot to handle
Upside: the kettle will always be ready. Downside: forget living on the surface
Woman sues NASA for ownership of vial of space dust
She claims it was gift from Apollo veteran Neil Armstrong
Astroboffins trace mysterious noise from hard rock in space
Signs in the sky from diamonds
Done and dusted? Vast storm gobbles NASA's long-lived Mars robot
Opportunity survived 2007 gale, but this one's way worse
NASA finds more stuff suggesting Mars could have hosted life, maybe
Organic material and methane finds can’t be tied to biological processes
Japan's asteroid-hunting robot Hayabusa2 has its prey within its sights
Landing, roving, cratering. What could possibly go wrong? Hopefully, nothing
Juno finds some lightning on Jupiter is the polar opposite to bolts here on Earth
Spacecraft gets mission extension to keep on gazing
USA! USA! We're No.1! And we want to keep it that way – in spaaaace
And we don't want to pay for it!
No lie-in this morning? Thank the Moon's gravitational pull
Complex tidal forces have drawn out the day
NASA makes the James Webb Telescope a looker with a heart of gold
Astroboffins get precious about heat protection in space
Four hydrogen + eight caesium clocks = one almost-proven Einstein theory
Time team comes closest it ever has to magical zero result
DIYers rejoice: Hitting stuff to make it work even works in space
Curiosity Rover's drill is mostly working again after 'percussive maintenance'
Calm your conspiracy theories, latest glimpse reveals Planet Nine may just be a pipe dream
Dodgy outer orbits all down to asteroids and gravity
NASA spots asteroid on crash course with Earth – with just hours to go
Video Not enough time to even call Bruce Willis and Armageddonoutofhere
SpaceX flings SES-12 satellite into orbit, but would-be lunar tourists should probably unpack
Meanwhile, Russia brings three ISS crew safely home yet again
Russian battery ambitions see a 10x increase in power from smaller, denser nukes
In Putin's Russia, battery life outlive YOU
Boffins quietly cheering possible discovery of new fundamental particle: Sterile neutrino
Champagne on ice, but MiniBooNE's 15-year hunt has produced promising results
Dawn spacecraft to get up-close and personal with dwarf planet Ceres
New orbit will skim just 30 miles above Death Star lookalike
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