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Mission Icarus: Inside the daring plan to touch the sun

The Parker Solar Probe is about to unlock the secrets of our star by flying into its fiery atmosphere – a mission that will push technology to the limit

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Mercury's long-lost cousin found in distant planetary system

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Mercury's long-lost cousin found in distant planetary system

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Silkworms now have a bacterial superpower thanks to CRISPR

Life

Silkworms now have a bacterial superpower thanks to CRISPR

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot keeps getting less great and less red

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot keeps getting less great and less red

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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

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The sun’s mysteriously hot corona may be due to invisible plasma

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The sun’s mysteriously hot corona may be due to invisible plasma

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A mountain range on Saturn’s moon Iapetus may be a former ring

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A mountain range on Saturn’s moon Iapetus may be a former ring

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An MRI scan of a glioblastoma tumour

Health

Genetically engineered cells can seek and destroy brain cancer

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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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We may have already found signs of alien microbes on Enceladus

Space

We may have already found signs of alien microbes on Enceladus

Earth microbes have shown they can withstand the environment on Enceladus. If alien life is similar, the methane we’ve found on Saturn’s moon could be from life

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This record-breaking photo was taken from 6 billion km away

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Space

Long-lost relatives: An amazing poster of the sun’s family tree

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Physics

Weird ice found on Neptune and Uranus has now been made on Earth

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Health

Defence strategies: How immunology took its great leap forward

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