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Illustration of the plumes at Enceladus's south pole

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Enigmatic plumes from Saturn’s moon caused by cosmic collision

Saturn’s icy moon spews water and heat into space, but only from its south pole. A new model suggests that’s because it suffered a hit-and-run long ago

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A little less ET, a little more astrophysics, if you please

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Could fast radio bursts really be powering alien space ships?

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Could fast radio bursts really be powering alien space ships?

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NASA's new budget is big on other worlds but ignores our own

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NASA's new budget is big on other worlds but ignores our own

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Pluto and Charon

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Discovery of tiny moon completes the set for worlds past Neptune

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How to dust a telescope’s 78-square-metre mirror with CO₂

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Voyager 1 looked back at Saturn on Nov. 16, 1980, four days after the spacecraft flew past the planet

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Voyager 1 might have seen Enceladus’ icy plumes 25 years early

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The Milky Way

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Family tree of stars helps reconstruct Milky Way's formation

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Future astronauts will need places to live on Mars

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New NASA teams will make human Mars missions light and efficient

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Mars landing sites for 2020 NASA mission down to the final three

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Mars landing sites for 2020 NASA mission down to the final three

At a meeting in California, NASA scientists whittled down the landing sites for its next rover - which will search for signs of life

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Magnetic meteorites narrow down solar system’s birthdate

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NASA wants to put a lander on Europa’s surface to look for life

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Have we found evidence that we live in a holographic universe?

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Water spotted in the atmosphere of nearby hot Jupiter exoplanet

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