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Titan’s riverbeds show a terrain built more like Mars than Earth

Space

Titan’s riverbeds show a terrain built more like Mars than Earth

Saturn’s largest moon resembles Earth with its rivers and mountains, but it came by its topography very differently - and could still be active today

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power plant picture

Physics

What the end of the atomic renaissance means for nuclear power

Insight

meteorites landing on early Earth

Space

Microbes might thrive after crash-landing on board a meteorite

News

Stars can start shining at a smaller mass than we thought

Space

Stars can start shining at a smaller mass than we thought

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Picture of Earth looking very round and blue

Earth

Odds on: Five scientific theories decided by wager

Features

an exoneptune with its star

Space

Neptune-like exoplanet spotted that has a watery atmosphere

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Space

NASA rocket mission takes 1500 sun images in just 5 minutes

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Waves surge in opposite directions around Io's largest lava lake

Space

Waves surge in opposite directions around Io's largest lava lake

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Protoplanetary disc around young star TW Hydrae.

Space

Earth may have been born in a huge flare-up of the young sun

News

screen grab of TV report on Fukushima disaster

Health

Fukushima accident gave everyone an X-ray’s worth of radiation

After the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan was hit by a tsunami in 2011, everyone was exposed to extra radiation, but for most people the dose was small

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Space

Watch Cassini's first two dives between Saturn and its rings

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Space

Marvel at the images from Cassini's first Grand Finale orbit

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Space

First look at images from Cassini's dive between Saturn's rings

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Space

Melting moons could support liveable atmospheres for aeons

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