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Artwork of a bombardment of asteroids

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Asteroid barrage may have birthed a short-lived ocean on Mars

How Mars acquired and then lost its water is a mystery, but a period of large asteroid impacts 4 billion years ago could provide an explanation

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Three satellites surround an asteroid

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Luxembourg's asteroid mining bid is Europe’s first

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A CubeSat orbiting the moon scans its pole for water

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NASA CubeSat missions will pave way for human space flight

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Philae lander fails to respond to last-ditch efforts to wake it

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Philae lander fails to respond to last-ditch efforts to wake it

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Famous Wow! signal might have been from comets, not aliens

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Famous Wow! signal might have been from comets, not aliens

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Dwarf planet Ceres looks like an asteroid but acts like a comet

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Dwarf planet Ceres looks like an asteroid but acts like a comet

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Rosetta's comet has oxygen made before the solar system's birth

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Rosetta's comet has oxygen made before the solar system's birth

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Volcanoes plus asteroid might have finished off dinosaurs

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Volcanoes plus asteroid might have finished off dinosaurs

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Budget NASA missions will head for asteroids or hellish Venus

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Budget NASA missions will head for asteroids or hellish Venus

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Rosettawatch: Comet 67P's weather revealed as sun melts ice

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Rosettawatch: Comet 67P's weather revealed as sun melts ice

The Rosetta probe has spotted a field of solid ice in the neck region of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko which turns to vapour when the sun rises

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Earth

Total eclipse glowing over icy pyramids wins photo prize

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Citizen scientists catch cloud of comets orbiting distant star

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Winking exoplanets could shed light on distant comet strikes

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Rosetta sees sparks as comet 67P reaches closest approach to sun

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