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The 12 biggest and best science stories of 2016

From the detection of gravitational waves to the birth of a three-parent baby, Â鶹´«Ã½ wraps up the most mind-expanding discoveries of the year

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Project Blue plans to send space telescope to snap nearby worlds

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Hypothetical view of an exoplanet with two suns

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Giant hidden Jupiters may explain lonely planet systems

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Saturn

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Saturn’s rings may be from the whirl of a passing icy rock

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Mystery object in weird orbit beyond Neptune cannot be explained

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Mystery object in weird orbit beyond Neptune cannot be explained

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Life

Ocean worlds: Searching for life in the solar system's seas

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A red landscape on the surface of Venus

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Venus could have been habitable while life evolved on Earth

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V883 Orionis's protoplanetary disc

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Baby star illuminates icy wall between rocky planets and giants

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Mercury

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Homebrew meteorites reveal origins of Mercury’s weird crust

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

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

If Pluto’s inner sea froze recently, we should see ridges popping up in the dwarf planet's outer shell. Since we don’t, it's probably still liquid

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Asteroids keep their rings safe from gas giants’ clutches

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How the sun abducted dwarf planets from an alien solar system

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Flamingo stars turn pink when they gobble iron-rich planets

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Earth

Cranky young sun could have kickstarted life on Earth

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