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Quantum gravity: we explore spin foams and other potential solutions to this enduring challenge

Photograph of Bianca Dittrich at the Perimeter Institute

Did cannibal stars and boson stars populate the early universe?

Objects formed by exotic particles could have created primordial black holes

Accelerator experiment sheds light on missing blazar radiation

Measurement discounts loss from plasma instabilities

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China’s Shenzhou-20 crewed spacecraft return delayed by space debris impact

Fears that the craft has been struck by a small piece of debris

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

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

Artist's impression of Dragonfly 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

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Plasma bursts from young stars could shed light on the early life of the Sun

Flattened halo of dark matter could explain high-energy ‘glow’ at Milky Way’s heart

Classical gravity may entangle matter, new study claims

Rapidly spinning black holes put new limit on ultralight bosons

Gravitational waves confirm predictions of Einstein and Kerr

Young rogue planet grows like a star

Telescope observations reveal material accreting onto the planet Cha1107-7626 in a way that resembles the infancy of stars

New adaptive optics technology boosts the power of gravitational wave detectors

FROnt Surface Type Irradiator, or FROSTI, will allow future detectors to run at higher laser powers, reducing noise and expanding capabilities

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

Global network could pinpoint astronomical sources

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

With further improvements, the instrument could enable direct tests of relativistic effects

Unconventional approach to dark energy problem gives observed neutrino masses

Cosmologically coupled black hole hypothesis also confirms that dark energy is evolving

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Cosmic dawn: the search for the primordial hydrogen signal

Sarah Wild talks to astronomers across the world who are on a hunt for a subtle hydrogen signal that could confirm or disprove our ideas on the universe’s evolut...

A radio antenna shaped like a table in remote tundra

‘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

Photographs of Diána Balogh-Weiser and Zoltan Nagy

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The top five physics Nobel prizes of the 21st century revealed

Matin Durrani counts down the five most signifiicant physics Nobels since 2000

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

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

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

Cartoon icons of astronomy surrounding an alien

Celebrating 10 years of gravitational waves

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

artistic illustration of gravitational waves from two colliding astronomical bodies

Juno: the spacecraft that is revolutionizing our understanding of Jupiter

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

LIGO could observe intermediate-mass black holes using artificial intelligence

Machine learning system reduces noise in interferometer mirrors

Artist's impression of the generation and detection of gravitational waves

Reformulation of general relativity brings it closer to Newtonian physics

Calculations reveal inverse square law behaviour in binary black holes

Artist's impression of gravitational waves from a black-hole binary

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

Extremely stripped star reveals heavy elements as it explodes

Observation sheds light on the life and death of stars

Rainer Weiss: US gravitational-wave pioneer dies aged 92

Weiss was instrumental in the discovery of gravitational waves in 2015

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

The Engineering Development Array 2, seen from above. There are three buildings - two white, one blue - at the top of the photo, and white cables stretch out like tendrils from the largest white building into the array. The array resembles a slightly irregular grid of white crosses. The bare ground underneath the array is a deep orange colour and a few scrubby plants can be seen at the periphery.

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

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