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SPHERE image of Hygiea

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Surprisingly round asteroid may actually be the smallest dwarf planet

The best ever image of the asteroid Hygiea has revealed its shape for the first time and it looks as if it is round enough to be a tiny dwarf planet like Pluto

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The solar system has too many moons – it's time for a cull

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The solar system has too many moons – it's time for a cull

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Beating cancer: How viruses are being used to infect and kill tumours

Health

Beating cancer: How viruses are being used to infect and kill tumours

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Maggie Aderin-Pocock on space travel and humanity's future

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Maggie Aderin-Pocock on space travel and humanity's future

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We may have spotted an interstellar comet flying towards Earth

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We may have spotted an interstellar comet flying towards Earth

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The team found DNA (red) and an enzyme (green) on the surface of human gallstones (yellow)

Health

Sticky nets of DNA from immune cells may be to blame for gallstones

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Tiny pebbles may be the reason most planets spin in the same direction

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Tiny pebbles may be the reason most planets spin in the same direction

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Immunotherapy may help treat some resistant bowel cancers

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Immunotherapy may help treat some resistant bowel cancers

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A total solar eclipse just passed over Chile and Argentina

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A total solar eclipse just passed over Chile and Argentina

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'Oumuamua

Space

Interstellar object 'Oumuamua almost definitely not aliens, we think

After the interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua flew through our solar system in 2017, some researchers speculated it might be an alien ship - it’s very likely not

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How Mercury and Venus can guide our hunt for alien life on exoplanets

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Europa’s salty surface may indicate an ocean that’s good for life

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Gene therapy

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The planets might control the sun's activity - and it's not astrology

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