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Building blocks of life spotted around comet for the first time

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Building blocks of life spotted around comet for the first time

The Rosetta spacecraft has detected biological components glycine and phosphorus emerging from its comet - suggesting life on Earth could have arrived on a ball of ice

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Perseid meteor shower

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Rare cosmic balancing act makes Perseid meteor showers brighter

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Identity-crisis comet may really be closest asteroid to the sun

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Identity-crisis comet may really be closest asteroid to the sun

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Strange Manx comet is time capsule from the early solar system

Strange Manx comet is time capsule from the early solar system

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Artwork of an asteroid zooming away from us with lots of cogs and engine parts attached to its backside

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Our top 5 wacky NASA missions that might just happen

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Oort cloud

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The Oort cloud surrounds our solar system – why can't we see it?

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'alien megastructure' star

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Comets can't explain weird 'alien megastructure' star after all

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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

Shiny spots and minerals on Ceres suggest it may have been born in the outer solar system, and that our classification of asteroids and planets is wrong

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

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Booze and sweets officially found in nearby comet for first time

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Life

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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