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Forgotten giants: Why the time is ripe to revisit Uranus and Neptune

A fleeting glimpse of the ice giants 30 years ago hinted at very weird science that could tell us a lot about exoplanets. Now we have a rare chance to go back

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Why weird star systems are where we'll find alien life

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The surface of Mars

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Mars could have been habitable 100 million years before Earth

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Lightning reveals where Jupiter stores its ‘missing’ water

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Lightning reveals where Jupiter stores its ‘missing’ water

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Ripples in Saturn’s rings unravel mystery of how fast it spins

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Ripples in Saturn’s rings unravel mystery of how fast it spins

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Methane ice and winds on Pluto make strange 'sand' dunes

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Methane ice and winds on Pluto make strange 'sand' dunes

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Pluto is not a planet – it's a billion comets squished together

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Pluto is not a planet – it's a billion comets squished together

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Frankenstein planets may form from the wreckage of dead worlds

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Frankenstein planets may form from the wreckage of dead worlds

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ESA eyes Venus mission or space telescope to launch by 2030

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ESA eyes Venus mission or space telescope to launch by 2030

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Jupiter's hefty twin found just 12 light years away

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Jupiter's hefty twin found just 12 light years away

A Jupiter-like planet has been found orbiting a star just 12 light years from Earth, making it the closest confirmed gas giant found outside our solar system

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Gooey nitrogen ice may make Pluto’s crater-free heart look young

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Dwarf planet Ceres has a water cycle but it’s not like Earth’s

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The moon may have formed in a vaporised, doughnut-shaped Earth

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Mars has ice sheets 130 metres thick hiding below its red dust

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