1. Leading scientists team up to create an at-home Astronomy course

2. The weird physics of levitating liquids and upside-down buoyancy

3. Researchers reveal true scale of megalodon shark for first time

4. Impossible' black hole causes biggest collision ever detected by gravitational waves

5. Scientists detect biggest known black-hole collision

6. Biggest black hole collision ever detected creates a cosmic monster

7. Seismic sensors look skywards — and capture dazzling auroras

8. Stunning space butterfly captured by telescope

9. Oldest surviving light reveals the universe's true age

10. Weird country-size 'campfires' on the sun revealed in closest-ever photos

11. A never-before-seen 'partial supernova' sent this star’s corpse skidding across the galaxy

12. Tubby 'tardigrade' crawls across sun's surface in spectacular images

13. The moon is 85 million years younger than previously thought

14. The universe's clock might have bigger ticks than we imagine

15. The predictable chaos of slow earthquakes

16. Water Transport Throughout The TRAPPIST-1 System: The Role Of Planetesimals

17. A Slightly Younger Moon

18. Hubble Sees Sculpted Galaxy NGC 7513

19. Two Bizarre Brown Dwarfs Found With Citizen Scientists' Help

20. Atmospheric Erosion By Giant Impacts Onto Terrestrial Planets: A Scaling Law for any Speed, Angle, Mass, and Density

21. This is the most comprehensive X-ray map of the sky ever made

22. Physicists discover new, exotic flavor of tetraquark

23. 4 mysterious objects spotted in deep space are unlike anything ever seen

24. Astronomers discover South Pole Wall, a gigantic structure stretching 1.4 billion light-years across

25. Earth's magnetic field changes 10 times faster than once thought

26. Chinese scientists reveal analysis of weird substance found on the moon's far side by Yutu 2 rover

27. The Hidden Magnetic Universe Begins to Come Into View

28. Welcome anyons! Physicists find best evidence yet for long-sought 2D structures

29. Missing: a large and unstable blue star

30. Most Massive Quasar Known In The Early Universe Discovered On Maunakea

31. Hubble Sees a Cosmic Flapping 'Bat Shadow'

32. Heat gave Jupiter's icy moon Europa layers. That may be good news for the search for life.

33. New Geometric Perspective Cracks Old Problem About Rectangles

34. Life in the Galaxy: Is This as Good as It Gets?

35. Carbon-Grain Sublimation: A New Top-down Component Of Protostellar Chemistry

36. Risks For Life On Proxima b From Sterilizing Asteroid Impacts

37. Alaskan volcano paved the way for the Roman Empire

38. The monstrous 'blobs' near Earth's core may be even bigger than we thought

39. Extreme climate after massive eruption of Alaska’s Okmok volcano in 43 BCE and effects on the late Roman Republic and Ptolemaic Kingdom

40. Evidence for Hot Start And Early Ocean Formation on Pluto

41. Young Giant Planet Offers Clues to Formation of Exotic Worlds

42. DNA from a 5,200-year-old Irish tomb hints at ancient royal incest

43. Planet Earth Report –“Antarctica’s Mystery Signal from Another Universe to Blobs at Earth’s Core Larger than Thought”

44. Death from above? Fireball may have destroyed ancient Syrian village

45. Why some physicists really think there's a 'mirror universe' hiding in space-time

46. Dark Matter Experiment Finds Unexplained Signal

47. Weirdly-shaped wormholes might work better than spherical ones

48. Our Milky Way galaxy may be teeming with ocean worlds

49. Behold! Hubble telescope catches stunning photos of planetary nebula fireworks

50. This is what our universe looks like to x-ray eyes

51. Our deepest view of the X-ray sky

52. Spacecraft to practice nudging asteroids away from us

53. BREAKING: Physicists announce first direct evidence for 'axions'

54. Mystery solved: Odd bright patches on Saturn moon Titan are dry lake beds

55. Mysterious blue fireball streaks above Western Australia, puzzling astronomers

56. Nonbinary astronomers need better support from their field, study finds
57. Rare quadruplet 'top quarks' created at world's largest atom smasher
58. Jupiter compared to Earth
59. Messier 19 (M19) – The NGC 6273 Globular Cluster
60. Pluto flyby turns 1! New Horizons mission celebrations anniversary  
61. Sun makes nervous face with hole in its head  
62. Juno spacecraft captures first photo from Jupiter orbit
63. Triple star system planet is directly imaged - that's rare
64. Dwarf planet discovered far beyond Pluto's orbit
65. Lost Japanese spacecraft shares groundbreaking view of galaxy group
66. In cosmic first, Scientists spy a star's snow line
67. What's the big deal about the pentaquark?
68. LHC physicists discover 5-quark particle
69. CERN's LHCb experiment reports of exotic pentaquark particles
70. Forsaken pentaquark particle spotted at CERN
71. Greatest mysteries: what causes gravity?
72. A 5th force: fact or fiction?
73. Quantum computer could simulate beginnings of the Universe
74. Why does outer space look black?
75. Hubble captures the beating heart of the Crab Nebula
76. Hubble captures vivid auroras in Jupiter's atmosphere
77. Hubble reveals stellar fireworks in 'skyrocket' galaxy
78. Do gravity waves cause tiny earthquakes?
79. Gamma ray bursts, gravity waves and earthquakes
80. Gravitational lensing by spinning black holes in astrophysics, and in the movie Interstellar
81. Gorgeous 'twilight zone' of Pluto may show cloud for the first time
82. Stolen world: 'planet 9' likely came from another star
83. Spinning comets can tear themselves apart: only to be reborn
84. What are quark stars?
85. Messier 20 (M20) - the Trifid Nebula
86. 2 nearby potentially habitable planets are rocky worlds
87. What is the biggest thing in the universe?
88. Mysterious baby star throws a tantrum...alone
89. Whip it good! Star's radiation beam sparks cosmic light show
90. Jupiter's great red spot is also red hot, study shows
91. Will the Great Attractor destroy us?
92. Laniakea: Our home supercluster
93. Why I love neutrinos
94. Large hadron collider prepares to deliver 6 times the data
95. 5 fascinating facts about DUNE
96. Bump watch - 2016
97. Fermilab scientists discover new 4-flavour particle
98. Jupiter's Moons' orbital dance - humans have never seen this
99. Pluto may harbour a liquid ocean
100. Sleeping black hole awakens to devour doomed star
101. Phobos: facts about the doomed Martian moon
102. Commotion in Saturn's rings: new photo reveals in-stain smudge
103. Measure for measure: quantum physics and reality
104. Quantum theory: the full documentary HD
105. Quantum mechanics explained in 60 seconds by Brian Cox
106. Quantum mechanics for dummies
107. Quantum theory made easy
108. Nat Geo's 'Mars" series takes viewers on journey to red planet
109. The biggest mysteries of Neptune
110. Rare newborn planet may be the youngest ever detected
111. Jupiter's shadow turns Io's atmosphere to frost once every 42 hours
112. The cosmos may have rebounded from an earlier contraction and "big crunch" into a "big bang" that started it all over again
113. Is the Earth safe from the asteroid Bennu?
114. The closest supernova since 1604 is hissing at us
115. Did we arrive early to the Universe's life party?
116. How fast does Venus rotate?
117. What does the Universe do when we're not looking?
118. Dark energy illuminated by largest galactic map 10 years in the making
119. Why is Uranus on its side?
120. Titan: facts about Saturn's largest moon
121. Meteorite minerals reveal unexpected collisions in the early solar system
122. HIRISE drops 1,000 new Mars images for for you viewing pleasure
123. Where is the earth in the Milky Way?
124. How does the Earth move?
125. A planet with a 27,000 year orbit, and that's just where the strangeness begins
126. How fast can stars spin?
127. Indications of early forming 'direct collapse' black hole seen
128. How much of the universe is in black holes?
129. Never a star: Indications of early forming 'direct collapse' black hole seen
130. Never a star: did supermassive black hole form directly?
131. Mysterious 'dark hydrogen' may lurk within giant planets
132. The universe's first galaxies may light up it dark ages
133. What is the electron cloud model?
134. When will the Earth lock to the Moon?
135. Why do planets have rings?
136. Where is the closest black hole?
137. Messier 9 (M8) - the Lagoon Nebula
138. How do we terraform Mars
139. How do we terraform Venus
140. How dense are the Planets?
141. What are the different kinds of supernovae?
142. Was the Big bang just a black hole?
143. What are alien megastructures?
144. How long is a year on the other planets?
145. What are the diameters of the planets?
146. What are the different masses of the planets?
147. Are there antimatter galaxies?
148. What are virtual particles?
149. How far can you travel?
150. Quantum computer makes first high-energy physics simulation
151. What if the Earth stopped orbiting the Sun?
152. What are magnetars?
153. Dark matter candidate 'sterile neutrino' particle still a mystery
154. Saturn moon Titan's deep liquid-filled canyons spied from above
155. Neutron stars unite to form pencil-thin radiation beams
156. Star cluster 'family photos' can provide deep inside
157. Methanol, a building block of life, found a newborn star for first time
158. What is light?
159. The black hole that outgrew its galaxy
160. How many moons are in the solar system?
161. X marks the spot at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy, indicates NASA's WISE mission
162. Quantum computing: moth ball chemical naphthalene helps technology work at room temperature
163. Earth-like planet around Promixa Centauri discovered
164. How close can moons orbit?
165. Did cirrus clouds help keep early Mars warm and wet?
166. Will our black hole eat the Milky Way?
167. Saturn goes psychedelic in crazy, colourful infrared photo
168. Vibrant star cluster sparkles in Sagittarius Constellation
169. Jupiter-sized planet is the largest found yet orbiting 2 stars
170. Amazing photo shows likely alien planet 1,200 light years ago
171. 'Mysterious object' may be first extinct meteorite
172. 'Twisty molecule" essential to life spotted in space for first time
173. Mercury crosses the Sun in stunning high resolution
174. Beyond Neptune, a chunk of ice is orbiting in the wrong direction
175. NASA probe glimpses supercharged radiation Belts
176. Physicists maybe, just maybe, confirm possible 5th force of nature
177. Cooking up life in the cosmic kitchen
178. A History Of Violence: Iron Found in Fossils Suggests Supernova Role In Mass Dying
179. ESO Announcement to address reports of Promixa centauri exoplanet exoplane
180.  What does "Earthlike" even mean and should it apply to Alpha centaur1 B?
181.  Earthlike planet discovered around Promixa centauri
182. Shields up, Mr Sulu, cruising at 20 % of the speed of light can have inherent risks
183. Mistaken identity: Supernova thought to be witnessed 386 CE would have been too faint
184. Vast space voids help fill in the blanks of cosmic mysteries
185. Could Promixa Centauri be our interstellar gateway?
186. Supernova ashes found in fossils hint at extinction event
187. Life's first handshake: chiral molecule detected in interstellar apace
188. Scientists toast the discovery of vinyl alcohol in interstellar space
189. Big kid: massive star spotted early in life
190. Stellar 'time bomb' proves crime doesn't pay
191. Distant moons of Saturn look neighbourly in new Cassini image
192. What is astrophysics?
193. Dark radiation may be causing the universe to expand faster than expected
194. planet's stormy weather has deep roots
195. Gravitational waves: scientists detect second 'fantastically significant' signal
196. Dim nearby galaxy is nearly 100% dark matter
197. What if scientists found life on closest alien planet Proxima B?
198. Who else is looking for cool worlds around Proxima Centauri? 
199. Aliens? "Strong" signal detected from Sun-like star being verified by SETI
200. 6 million years ago the Milky Way's supermassive black hole raged
201. Planet 9 search turning up wealth of new objects
202. Dark matter: Hot or Not?
203. Philae comet lander wakes up and phones home
204. Uranus and Neptune may keep "Hitler's acid" stable under massive pressure
205. Curiosity rover' proximity to possible water raises planetary protection concerns
206. Curiosity rover captures full-circle panorama of enticing 'Murray Butts' on Mars
207. On the origin of Phobos' groovy mystery
208. Sentinel-1A takes direct hit from millimetre size particle
209. Going viral: why alien signals get everyone excited
210. What is the largest desert on Earth?
211. New Horizons spies Pluto's neighbour Quaoar
212. What is the speed of light? 
213. Turns out there is no actual looking up
214. How cold are black holes?
215. Juno captures Jupiter's enthralling poles from 2,500 miles
216. Newly found ancient fossils found show possibilities for finding life on Mars
217. Talk about a crowded neighborhood: closest binary stars with multiple planets found
218. Scientists explain Pluto's red headed moon 
219. Hubble captures the sharpest image of a disintegrating comet ever
220. Spectacular panoramas from curiosity reveal layered Martian rock formations like America's southwest
221. Have we really just seen the birth of a black hole?
222. How high is space?
223. Hubble images 3 debris discs around G-type stars
224. What are the parts of the Sun?
225. Messier 23 - the NGC 6494 open star cluster
226. Stunning new images of Mars from Curiosity River
227. The big dipper in the year 92,000
228. Does our galaxy have a habitable zone
229. Phenomenal new view of Ceres 'Lonely Mountain' reveals signs of volcanic activity
230. Stellar ghosts: understanding our origins
231. Hubble's surprising find on Europa to be announced by NANA on Monday
232. Quantum computing: scientists stop light in a cloud of atoms
233. Scenario for plasma ejections from V Hydrae
234. 'Alien megastructure' keeps getting stranger
235. Hubble detects giant 'cannonballs' shooting from star
236. NASA's Hubble spots possible water plumes erupting from Jupiter's moon Europa
237. X-rays are coming from the dark side of Venus
238. How do supernovae fail?
239. Perfect lineup of satellites finds 'missing link' in aurora mystery
240. Major dust storm could soon hit Mars
241. New dwarf planet found in our solar system
242. Eyeballing Proxima b: Probably not a second Earth
243. Saturn's moon Dione probably has a buried ocean as well
244. Great, mysterious balls of fire speed by dying star
245. Record-breaking 2-star system spotted in nearby galaxy
246. Surprise! 3 planet-forming disks spotted around young double star
247. Solar electric propulsion upgrades wanted for deep space mission
248. Teleportation of light particles across cities in China and Canada a 'technological breakthrough'
249. Starving black hole at the heart of the mysteriously dimming of Markarian 1018 galaxy
250. How Pluto's moon Charon got its red cap
251. An exoplanet with huge rings intrigues
252. Gamma-ray binary star system found in another galaxy for the first time
253. What is a magnetic field?
254. What are molecules?
255. For the love of physics
256. Einstein's relativistic train in a tunnel paradox: special relativity
257. Extraordinary documentary - inside Einstein's mind the enigma of space and time - BBC documentary
258. New particle may hide in old atom smasher data
259. Mysterious 'dark energy' may not exist, study claims
260. Surprise! cold gas 'halos' found around brightest objects in the Universe
261. Mysterious star pulses may be alien signals, study claims
262. Why half of Pluto's 'heart' has a new name
263. Our galactic arm may have a longer reach than we thought
264. A death star's ghostly glow
265. How many planets are there in the Galaxy?
266. Seasonal change on Titan is a dynamic business
267. Planets around stars like Proxima Centauri are probably Earth-sized water worlds
268. What is the Martian curse?
269. The search is on for alien signals around Tabby's star
270. What's the most stable shape for an interstellar lightsail?
271. If it wasn't already strange enough, now Saturn's hexagon storm is changing colour
272. Messier 25 - The IC 4725 Open Cluster
273. Pure metal asteroid has mysterious water deposits
274. Curiosity finds a melted space metal meteorite on the surface of Mars
275. When was the first light in the Universe
276. A new model to improve gravity models
277. Pluto's wandering heart hints at a subsurface ocean
278. Electronic E.T. : Intelligent aliens are likely machines
279. Radio burst hits Earth from a billion light years away
280. Twisters pop up in weird 'big bang' soup
281. 'Impossible' space engine might actually work, study suggests
282. Hidden clusters of galaxies may be moving the Milky Way
283. Pluto's heavy 'heart' may have moved its poles
284. Bremsstrahlung radiation
285. An introduction to the electronic structure of atoms and molecules
286. Quantum mechanical and chemical bonding
287. Quantum theory - full documentary HD
288. Quantum theory made easy [1]
289. Quantum theory made easy [2]
290. Quantum theory: it's unreal
291. Atom: the illusion of reality - BBC documentary (Part 3)
292. Quantum universe and entanglement science documentary
293. Beyond beauty: the predictive power of symmetry
294. The Universe: the other side of a black hole
295. The best parallel universe documentary
296. Naked science season 8 living in parallel universe
297. Co-ordinate (dative covalent) bonding
298. String theory part 1
299. String theory part 2
300. String theory part 3
301. Hidden dimensions - exploring hyperspace
302. Welcome to the 11th dimension
303. What is dark matter? Space documentary
304. Science documentary - Dark Matter and energy the invisible universe
305. Mathematics explains the Universe - the full documentary 2016
306. LHC smashes old collision records
307. Hunting the nearly un-huntable
308. Ancient space dust washes up in rooftop gutters
309. Dark matter no so clumpy after all
310. NASA's CYNGSS Hurricane-tracking satellites in pictures
311. Galactic 'spiderweb' has unusual feeding habits
312. 'Star in a jar' fusion reactor works and promises infinite energy
313. LIGO doesn’t just detect gravitational waves. It makes them, too
314. Hidden clusters of galaxies may be moving the milky way
315. Monster meteorite found in Texas
316. The more scientist learn about "Tabby's Star," the more mysterious object gets
317. Telescope sets sights on Universe's first stars
318. A supermassive black hole
319. Topology yields miniaturisation breakthrough for quantum physics
320. A galaxy as you've never seen it
321. Boost for the odd of life- Jupitor moon Europa may have plate tectonics
322. How big are superdense neutron stars, really
323. A peculiar galactic clash -- ScienceDaily
324. Chemical Abundances in the Leading Arm of the Magellanic Stream - IOPscience
325. Hubble solves cosmic 'whodunit' with interstellar forensics -- ScienceDaily
326. What interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua can teach us -- ScienceDaily
327. Dark matter goes missing in oddball galaxy -- ScienceDaily
328. A new kind of star: Together with gravity, the polarization of the quantum vacuum may allow stars to exist in unconventional configurations. -- ScienceDaily
329. New ultrafast measurement technique shows how lasers start from chaos -- ScienceDaily
330. Water's mysterious phase transitions -- ScienceDaily
331. Beguiling dark-matter signal persists 20 years on
332. Beyond the Higgs: What's Next for the LHC? - with Harry Cliff - YouTube
333. Making sense of string theory | Brian Greene - YouTube
334. Lecture 1 | String Theory and M-Theory - YouTube
335. Newly found metallic exoplanet is a lot like Mercury - Futurity
336. Super thin device is a step toward 'invisible' screens - Futurity
337. Is there life adrift in the clouds of Venus? -- ScienceDaily
338. Hubble Telescope Captures Cosmic 'Tug-of-War' Between Galaxies
339. Cannonball-Like Exoplanet Is an Earth-Size Mercury
340. NASA's Next Mars Lander Will Look Deep to Understand the Red Planet — and Earth
341. Defying Theories, This Ghostly Galaxy Has Almost No Dark Matter
342. Could Magnetic Sails Slow an Interstellar Spacecraft Enough? - Universe Today
343. Messier 60 - the NGC 4649 Galaxy - Universe Today
344. Caught on camera: the birth of a supernova | Cosmos
345. Australia's Science Channel | We're living in the aftermath of a galactic tidal wave
346. HubbleSite: News - Hubble Uncovers the Farthest Star Ever Seen
347. This weird quantum state of matter was made in orbit for the first time
348. Misbehaving kaons could hint at the existence of new particles
349. A star shredded by a black hole may have spit out an extremely energetic neutrino

350. The Milky Way’s giant gas bubbles were seen in visible light for the first time

351. Earth is sending oxygen to the moon

Gigantic clusters of galaxies pose a new dark-matter puzzle

Data sonification: Sounds from around the Milky Way

The first-ever image of a black hole is now a movie

5.    Earth

1. Planet Earth: Facts About Its Orbit, Atmosphere & Size
2. Massive underwater rivers were discovered off the coast of Australia
3. Dragons and magical dirt: Legendary 'Great Flood' left real evidence
4. Hidden fault could trigger a cataclysmic megaquake in Asia
5. Massive 'lava lamp' blobs deep inside Earth have scientists puzzled
6. How much of the ocean is whale pee (and worse)?
7. What causes mysterious 'worldwide hum?'
8. What is the Earth's mantle made of?
9. Dying mangroves on Australian coast
10. Mediterranean Sea may harbour piece of oldest ocean crust
11. Siberia crater 'gateway to the underworld': melting permafrost a huge problem for the planet
12. Life may have emerged not once, but many times on Earth
13. What are the Lagrange points?
14. Citizen scientists help crack 300 year old mystery of eclipse wind
15. What was the temperature of the Earth's crust?
16. What is the difference between active and dormant volcanoes?
17. What scientists are seeing over Antarctica
18. Gulf Stream Destabilisation Point is on the move
19. Volcano stopped an earthquake in its tracks, scientists say
20. Plants send light to roots to 'see' underground
21. Climate could shrink habitat of 90 % of eucalypt species
22. Molten 'jet stream' discovered deep inside Earth
23. These crabs pinch harder than most animals bite
24. 'Atlas of the underworld' reveals oceans and mountains lost to Earth history
25. Meet the frail, small brained people who first trekked out of Africa
26. Dark Matter Experiment Finds Unexplained Signal
27. Weird green glow spotted in atmosphere of Mars
28. Einstein's core idea about gravity just passed an extreme, whirling test in deep space

29. Scientists retrieve 80-million-year-old dinosaur protein in ‘milestone’ paper

6.     Life

Microbes from millions of years ago

New Research Reveals Surprising Origins of Egypt’s Hyksos Dynasty

Antarctica: The origins of mysterious fossil dubbed 'The Thing' finally answered

Antarctica’s ‘green snow’ is sucking carbon out of the air

Paleontologists find enormous prehistoric egg laid by Late Cretaceous marine reptile

Stunningly intact giant squid washes ashore in South Africa

Ancient Antarctic sea monster may have laid this football-size egg

The monstrous 'blobs' near Earth's core may be even bigger than we thought

Pink cast reveals brain’s amazing ‘disuse pulses’

The first dinosaur eggs were soft and leathery

Eggshells indicate dinosaurs were warm-blooded

Asteroid crater sheds light on 1st day of dinosaur extinction

1. 13,000-year-old human footprints found off Canada's Pacific coast: New evidence of human population living on the west coast of Canada at the end of last ice age -- ScienceDaily

2. Early birds may have been too hefty to sit on their eggs

3. Feathered dinosaurs were even fluffier than we thought

4. The big five mass extinctions | Cosmos

5. Strings of electron-carrying proteins may hold the secret to 'electric bacteria': The nanowire structure and electron transfer process of a unique bacterium could provide a foundation for sustainable energy -- ScienceDaily

6. Mediterranean megaflood confirmed | Cosmos

7. Caught on camera: the cells eating your brain | Cosmos

8. The lymphatic drain inside your brain | Cosmos

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