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Strange lines on Venus may be folded stacks of lava eroded by wind

Venus’s surface is covered in strange wiggling lines that may form when colossal stacks of lava are carved by gentle winds over hundreds of millions of years

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Cerberus Fossae

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Five things we have learned about Mars from NASA's InSight mission

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Pluto's icy nitrogen heart makes its atmosphere spin backwards

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Pluto's icy nitrogen heart makes its atmosphere spin backwards

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Mercury

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Mercury’s outer layers may have been stripped off by a young Venus

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Imagined Mars settlement

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Should SpaceX be allowed to contaminate Mars with Earth microbes?

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dust clouds in space

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We finally know how whole planets grow from tiny clumps of dust

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Leigh Fletcher

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Voyage to Jupiter: What the Juno mission can teach us

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Michele Bannister

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The inside story on 'Oumuamua and other interstellar worlds

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Exploring the wonders of the solar system

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Seize your chance to spot Mercury, the solar system's smallest planet

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Seize your chance to spot Mercury, the solar system's smallest planet

Mercury is so tiny and close to the sun it can be tricky to see. But now it’s at its greatest “angular separation” – so grab your binoculars and train them on the east

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See Venus and Jupiter next to each other in the sky this week

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How to watch Mercury's transit of the sun with just binoculars

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Surprisingly round asteroid may actually be the smallest dwarf planet

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Strange volcanic domes on Venus may be made from hot crystal mush

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