NASA’s WFIRST mission set for go-ahead
Space agency expected to make the probe an official project next month
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Are gravitational waves being ‘redshifted’ away by the cosmological constant?
Dark energy may have a measurable effect on future observations made by LISA or the Einstein Telescope
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‘Green-pea’ galaxies may have kick-started universal reionization
Energetic photons from compact sources offer insights into the evolution of the early universe
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Loops and arcs in the radio sky
Michael Peel, Matias Vidal, Clive Dickinson and Paddy Leahy explain the latest map from the Planck Collaboration
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Quest to understand ‘nothing’ wins Physics World’s 2015 Book of the Year
Amanda Gefter's Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn takes top honour
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Magnetic fields near the Milky Way’s black hole seen for the first time
Event Horizon Telescope clearly resolves dynamical features at the event horizon
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Universe’s missing mass found in the cosmic web
Long, diaphanous filaments contain vast amounts of ordinary matter
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Astronomers gaze upon the oldest stars in the galaxy
Ancient metal-poor stars finally spotted in galactic centre
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Web life: Astrobites
A blog where astronomy PhD students write bite-sized summaries of recent astronomy papers for undergraduates
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European superscope reveals its three ‘first-light’ instruments
Agreements signed for E-ELT's phase 1 instruments with the UK, France, Germany and other European states
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