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New class of supergiant stars could explain missing supernova progenitors

Could there really be life in the clouds of Venus?

Exploring the story behind the detection of phosphene in the Venusian atmosphere

Machine-learning study of metallic hydrogen provides clues about Jupiter’s interior

Simulation suggests a smooth transition to a metal at high pressure

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Astronomers plan huge neutrino observatory in the Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment would be the world’s largest neutrino telescope once built by the end of the decade

Giant Magellan Telescope receives cash injection from the National Science Foundation

US National Science Foundation has awarded $17.5m towards the construction of the huge 25.4 m telescope

NASA launches Mars Perseverance rover

Mission will explore the Martian geology and climate, look for signs of past microbial life as well as launch a small helicopter

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Jupiter-sized planet found orbiting tiny white dwarf star

Magnetic reconnection drives mini-jets in blazar

Has evidence of life been found in the clouds of Venus?

LIGO–Virgo spots its most massive black hole merger so far

Two black holes combined to create object 142 times more massive than the Sun

Microwave anomalies strengthen the case for loop quantum cosmology, say physicists

Tiny features of a ‘Big Bounce’ led to universe-size anomalies today

Solar flares are predicted by new model

“κ-scheme” could help give early warning of destructive solar storms

Colliding star may have switched-off black hole’s X-ray corona

Galactic centre dimmed rapidly over less than two months

Isotope ratios yield clues to element synthesis

Measurements could help identify the origin of meteorite grains that formed before our solar system and improve models of nova explosions

Did a supernova trigger the late Devonian extinction?

Isotopic evidence could be lurking in the fossil record

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Evidence for life is found on Venus, wider access to the best radiotherapy

We talk about reducing the global disparity in cancer treatment and Venusian phosphine

Why that massive black-hole merger is important, battling quantum decoherence on two fronts

Gravitational-wave expert Laura Nuttall is our guest this week

In it for the long run

Corey Gray on building and working at LIGO, inspiring the next generation of Indigenous physicists, and having a healthy work–life balance

Image of exoplanets orbiting a Sun-like Star

Giant exoplanets directly observed orbiting Sun-like star

Finding could shed light on how our own solar system evolved

China successfully launches Tianwen-1 Mars probe

Craft will study Mars’ magnetosphere and atmosphere as well as surface and subsurface geological structures

A flat-Earth fight, an inconsistent Hubble constant, and carbon atoms at a graphene ‘watering hole’

Debates over the shape of the Earth and the rate of the universe's expansion have a very different feel

Hubble trouble: a rapidly expanding cosmic debate

Astronomers puzzled by discrepancies in the measured values of the Hubble constant

Starspot study sheds light on why some red giants spin faster than others

Astronomers identify three routes to high angular momentum

Growing the gravitational-wave network

David Reitze discusses how gravitational-wave observations are set for a multi-detector boost

Artist impression of MESSENGER spacecraft

Space-based spectrometer enters neutron lifetime debate

Analysis of data from NASA's MESSENGER craft yields a value that differs from those of laboratory experiments

United Arab Emirates launches Hope mission to Mars

The Hope craft – the first Arab mission to Mars – will study the Martian atmosphere including daily and seasonal changes in the climate

Planet Nine: is it a planet, a primordial black hole or something else entirely?

Fleets of tiny probes might discover what’s lurking at the edge of our solar system

Did a black-hole merger create a flash in a distant quasar?

Second signal from a hurtling black hole expected soon

David Leckrone on his 33 years with the Hubble Space Telescope mission, Twitter poster conference takes off

How NASA corrected Hubble’s spherical aberration and other triumphs

David Leckrone’s scientific highlights from three decades of the Hubble Space Telescope

Astrophysicist and former senior project scientist for Hubble picks his favourites

Finding a consistent constant

Keith Cooper investigates the discrepancies in values of the Hubble constant and asks what this might mean for cosmology

Tabletop device might snare gravitational waves using tiny diamonds

New matter-wave interferometer would rely on nanoparticles, not lasers

LIGO reveals quantum correlations at work in mirrors weighing tens of kilograms

Result points to lower noise limit for gravitational-wave detectors

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