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A diagram showing the location of the Boötes Void in the sky

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Space is full of gigantic holes that are bigger than we expected

The universe is full of eerie, empty voids that are bigger than we ever expected – and could help unravel the cosmos's deepest mysteries

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galaxy map

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How to iron out gravity's creases in our map of the universe

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Hypothetical view of an exoplanet with two suns

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Giant hidden Jupiters may explain lonely planet systems

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Aerial view of the 500-metre-wide telescope dish

Space

Biggest radio telescope on Earth ready to receive alien signals

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Gas giant exoplanet in front of star

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Puffed-up exoplanets inflate with heat from their stars alone

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Artist's depiction of a pulsar approaching a disc of rubble

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Mystery radio bursts may be pulsars bumping into asteroids

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World's largest telescope array takes its deepest view yet

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World's largest telescope array takes its deepest view yet

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A black hole swallowing a star

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Reality guide: Six problems physics can't explain

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A simulation of the structure of the galaxy

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Reality guide: The essential laws of cosmology

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Ripples

Space

Reality guide: The essential laws of quantum physics

The theory that governs the workings of subatomic particles and forces is notoriously inscrutable – but what principles make it look like it does?

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Space

Reality guide: Six radical ideas to change physics

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Space

Gaia's new star map will also reveal asteroids and dark matter

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Space

Gaia’s map of 1 billion stars is the clearest view of our galaxy

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Star arrangement that hid for a decade spotted at galaxy’s heart

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