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Photo of two researchers in a clean room with the components of the prototype. They're wearing white bunny suits, gloves, and masks over their noses and mouths. The components are shiny and gold and laid out on a bench

New adaptive optics technology boosts the power of gravitational wave detectors

‘Science needs all perspectives – male, female and everything in-between’: Brazilian astronomer Thaisa Storchi Bergmann

Meghie Rodrigues talks to Brazilian astronomer Thaisa Storchi Bergmann about curiosity, black holes and current challenges in research funding

Astronauts could soon benefit from dissolvable eye insert

A solution to microgravity-related vision problems is the topic of this week's podcast

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Artist's impression of Dragonfly mission

NASA criticized over its management of $3.3bn Dragonfly mission to Titan

Cost overruns and delays have hit the drone-like rotorcraft mission

Cosmic microwave background pioneer George Smoot dies aged 80

Smoot and John Mather discovered tiny temperature fluctuations in the CMB

NASA launches IMAP mission to provide real-time space weather forecasts

IMAP will also map the boundary of the heliosphere, a huge protective bubble in space created by the Sun

Rainer Weiss: US gravitational-wave pioneer dies aged 92

Weiss was instrumental in the discovery of gravitational waves in 2015

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Schematic of the gravitational-wave detector

Phase shift in optical cavities could detect low-frequency gravitational waves

A photograph of the ring laser at the Geodetic Observatory Wettzell in Bavaria. It's mounted on a circular platform, which is itself mounted on a chunky-looking metal dais. There's a person in black clothing working on the laser at the back of the room, but most other things in the room are grey or white.

Optical gyroscope detects Earth’s rotation with the highest precision yet

Unconventional approach to dark energy problem gives observed neutrino masses

LIGO could observe intermediate-mass black holes using artificial intelligence

Machine learning system reduces noise in interferometer mirrors

Reformulation of general relativity brings it closer to Newtonian physics

Calculations reveal inverse square law behaviour in binary black holes

Extremely stripped star reveals heavy elements as it explodes

Observation sheds light on the life and death of stars

Starlink satellite emissions interfere with radio astronomy

Largest-ever survey shows new regulations on unintended transmissions are needed, say researchers at Australia’s Curtin University

Exoplanets suffering from a plague of dark matter could turn into black holes

Surveying exoplanets could provide a new way to hunt for superheavy dark-matter particles

Laser-driven implosion could produce megatesla magnetic fields

Simulations of improved technique generate fields as strong as those found near neutron stars

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Ask me anything: Scott Bolton – ‘It’s exciting to be part of a team that’s seeing how nature works for the first time’

Planetary scientist Scott Bolton describes his working life at the helm of NASA’s Jupiter-exploring Juno mission

Imagining alien worlds: we explore the science and fiction of exoplanets

Keith Cooper chats about his new book in this podcast

Training for the stars: Rosemary Coogan on becoming an astronaut

Inside the training, science and imagination that inspire ESA’s new generation of astronauts

Andromeda image bags Royal Observatory Greenwich prize

The image – The Andromeda Core – showcases the core of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) in exceptional detail

Cartoon icons of astronomy surrounding an alien

If you met an alien, what would you say to it?

Hamish Johnston reviews Do Aliens Speak Physics? by Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner

artistic illustration of gravitational waves from two colliding astronomical bodies

Celebrating 10 years of gravitational waves

The Einstein Telescope could usher in a new age of gravitational-wave astronomy

Juno: the spacecraft that is revolutionizing our understanding of Jupiter

PI Scott Bolton talks about the mission’s discoveries and endurance in this podcast

Big data helps Gaelic football club achieve promotion following 135-year wait

Astrophysics PhD student from County Armagh in Northern Ireland combined his passion for science with Gaelic football

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