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Looking back at Viking, the first mission to Mars

Space

Looking back at Viking, the first mission to Mars

Forty years ago, the Viking mission set the stage for real science in space – and without a human in sight. The Smithsonian pays tribute

Culture

Mercury

Space

Homebrew meteorites reveal origins of Mercury’s weird crust

News

Rip up the rule book and let NASA's Mars rover check 'life' zone

Life

Rip up the rule book and let NASA's Mars rover check 'life' zone

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Hubble spots a new long-lived storm raging on Neptune

Space

Hubble spots a new long-lived storm raging on Neptune

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A detailed view of Pluto's surface taken by NASA's New Horizons craft

Space

Pluto must have liquid ocean or it'd look like an overripe peach

News

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Space

I smelled comet 67P's deadly pong and lived to tell the tale

News

Space

Asteroids keep their rings safe from gas giants’ clutches

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The alien world that's being vaporised by a death ray

Space

The alien world that's being vaporised by a death ray

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Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

Life

Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

News

Ocean worlds could host life under layers of high-pressure ice

Life

Ocean worlds could host life under layers of high-pressure ice

Models of ice formation at high pressure suggest there could be habitable liquid water at the bottom of incredibly deep alien oceans

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Health

'People said I was mad': Why I chose extreme treatment for my MS

News

Space

Massive exoplanet’s close dance is making its star spin faster

News

Health

Extreme cure for MS reboots immune system – but can be fatal

News

Space

How the sun abducted dwarf planets from an alien solar system

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