Astronomy

Groups rising to Mercury's transit

US firefighters backtrack on meteorite

James Webb's mirror is revealed

Gravity mission passes 'sanity check'

In pictures: Stargazing

Sighthill standing stones being removed

Lasers could 'cloak Earth from aliens'

Japanese satellite lost in space?

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Why can’t the date of Easter be fixed?

Student of the dark arts sought

Hubble telescope spies 'land of giants'

'Rare' light pillars spotted in the sky

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Total solar eclipse in pictures

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Indonesia sees 'magical' solar eclipse

Hubble sets 'new cosmic distance record'

Radio flash tracked to faraway galaxy

Milky Way gas survey completed

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Gases analysed on distant 'super-Earth'

China to relocate 10,000 for telescope