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

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

Ceres, a distant dwarf planet, hosts sheets of ice just under its surface. In the summer, some of this ice may sublimate and coat shadowy crater walls in frost

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

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

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Mars

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Mars rocks may have drunk up all the water and doomed life there

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Moon’s explosive birth drove iron deep into Earth's core

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Moon’s explosive birth drove iron deep into Earth's core

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Streaky slopes on Mars

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Signs of running water on Mars dunes are probably just dry sand

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We may know why Jupiter's Great Red Spot is red instead of white

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Boiling water on Mars could make the planet's sand levitate

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Boiling water on Mars could make the planet's sand levitate

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A 300-kilometre space rock has vanished since we saw it in 1995

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A 300-kilometre space rock has vanished since we saw it in 1995

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The dwarf planet Eris

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Volcanoes that spew stretchy ice could make dwarf planets bright

Something strange is happening on dwarf planets Eris and Makemake. They’re tiny and cold, but they still show surprising signs of geologic activity, like real planets

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A gaggle of 7 moons keep Saturn’s rings from breaking apart

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The mysterious bright spots on Ceres may have a common origin

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Star nicknamed Kronos after eating its own planetary children

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Watching Cassini’s last moments from inside NASA mission control

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