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Artist impression of a rocky and water-rich asteroid being torn apart by the gravity of the white dwarf star GD 61.

Watery asteroid in dying star points to habitable exoplanets

10 Oct 2013

Latest research on rocky relics suggests a distant planetary system, now past its “death throes”, had very similar water ‘delivery system’ to our own...

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Construction starts on Centre for Astrophysics

19 Oct 2012

A groundbreaking ceremony was held yesterday to mark the start of construction of a £5 million building for the University of Cambridge, to the north...

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