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

Reformulation of general relativity brings it closer to Newtonian physics

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

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Rainer Weiss: US gravitational-wave pioneer dies aged 92

Weiss was instrumental in the discovery of gravitational waves in 2015

NASA launches TRACERS mission to study Earth’s ‘magnetic shield’

NASA has successfully launched a mission to explore the interactions between the Sun’s and Earth’s magnetic fields. The Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissa...

UK ‘well positioned’ to exploit space manufacturing opportunities, says report

Report says companies see 'huge advantages' in making drugs, harvesting stem cells and growing crystals in space

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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.

Starlink satellite emissions interfere with radio astronomy

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

Conceptual illustration of bladed microtube implosion, showing how sawtooth-like blades inside the cylindrical target drive strong loop currents (shown as a pinkish swirl) and generate strong magnetic fields (shown as bright yellow loops around the target)

Laser-driven implosion could produce megatesla magnetic fields

Space ice reveals its secrets

Simulations and experiments indicate that the low-density amorphous ice found on comets and icy moons is not, in fact, entirely amorphous

Too-close exoplanet triggers flares from host star

New observations are the first direct evidence of planets influencing their stars rather than just passively orbiting them

New experiment uses levitated magnets to search for dark matter

Although it hasn’t detected dark matter yet, its developers say it offers an alternative path that is worth exploring

Earth-shaking waves from Greenland mega-tsunamis imaged for the first time

New analysis of satellite altimetry data reveals that trapped waves called seiches were responsible for anomalous seismic signals in 2023

A cosmic void may help resolve the Hubble tension

Baryon acoustic oscillations point to area of low density surrounding the Milky Way

Spacecraft can navigate using light from just two stars

Observations from space and Earth reveal location and heading of New Horizons

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Big data, big wins: how solar astrophysics can be a ‘game-changer’ in sports analytics

Joe McEntee explores the surprising links between solar physics and sports science

Web of dark lines interconnecting against a lighter background

MOND versus dark matter: the clash for cosmology’s soul

From Bohemian solutions and binary battles to new parameters and novel experiments, the dark matter vs MOND clash rages on

Diversity in UK astronomy and geophysics declining, finds survey

Diversity in UK astronomy and geophysics has reduced in recent years, with the fields becoming more white

A bright image of two circular objects, one in a blue colour and the other in an orange colour. A thin trail of material leads from the blue object (the star) to the orange object (the black hole that's accreting the material)

Astronomers observe the biggest booms since the Big Bang

"Extreme nuclear transients" from tidally disrupted heavy stars release more energy than 100 supernovae

Artist’s conception of a supermassive black hole

Black holes could act as cosmic supercolliders

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable insights for particle physics

Meteor falling to earth over a desert landscape

Space rock quest: meet the people hunting meteorites

Iain Dale-Trotter reviews The Meteorite Hunters: On the Trail of Extraterrestrial Treasures and the Secrets Inside Them by Joshua Howgego

X-rays reveal a cosmic filament

New study shines a light on missing baryonic matter

Students mark Jodrell Bank anniversary with epic LEGO model of the Lovell Telescope

The model will now go on display at the University of Manchester's Schuster Building

Cosmic conflict continues: new data fuel the Hubble tension debate

New measurements of the universe’s expansion using James Webb Space Telescope appear to resolve the Hubble constant conflict – or do they?

Vera C Rubin Observatory reveals its first spectacular images of the cosmos

Pictures include the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas and the Virgo cluster

Astronomers capture spectacular ‘thousand colour’ image of the Sculptor Galaxy

The image revealed around 500 planetary nebulae that can be used as distance markers to their host galaxies

Two stars orbiting each other in the night sky

Short-lived eclipsing binary pulsar spotted in Milky Way

Rare sighting could allow astronomers to test theories of binary star systems

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Black-hole scattering calculations could shed light on gravitational waves

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