Scientists cook up big bang soup
Hot stuff Scientists using the world's largest atom smasher have made some of the hottest and densest matter ever achieved on Earth.
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Asteroids cook up ingredients of life
Life factories A set of pristine meteorites has provided fresh support for the notion that the chemical ingredients of life came from outer space.
Blasts point to new class of supernova
Astronomers claim six ultra-bright flashes detected in deep space were ancient exploding stars that are a new kind of supernova.
"We have a whole new class of objects
How Jupiter shaped the Solar System
Shaper of worlds A new study says Jupiter may have been responsible the size of the rocky planets and the composition of the asteroid belt.
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Huge explosion most distant ever seen
Far, far, away Scientists have set a new record for the most distant object ever observed - 13.14 billion light years way.
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Spin cycle reveals star's age
Revealing twirl In an attempt to home in on habitable worlds beyond Earth, scientists have developed a new technique to approximate a planet's age.
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