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

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

These are the first images of the planet taken as the Cassini spacecraft made the first of its 22 planned dives between its rings.

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Melting moons could support liveable atmospheres for aeons

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Melting moons could support liveable atmospheres for aeons

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Mars and asteroids

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Mars Trojans may be part of a planet that was destroyed long ago

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Europa

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Joint mission to Europa could seek life under the ice

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Icy Enceladus’s tiger stripes are a window on its watery depths

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Icy Enceladus’s tiger stripes are a window on its watery depths

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meteorite artwork

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Rocks of ages: How meteorites reveal the solar system's history

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A large piece of the Chelyabinsk meteorite extracted from a lake with ropes

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Earth’s greatest hits: Six of the biggest meteorites in history

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Saturn's moon Atlas, which is shaped like a ravioli

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Saturn's flying saucer moon Atlas has a smooth fluffy edge

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MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars

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Mars's atmosphere hosts metal layers that shouldn't exist

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The Stellar Echo Imaging of Exoplanets Concept

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NASA funds radical Pluto hopper and cosmic echolocation concepts

The space agency just announced the recipients of its Innovative Advanced Concepts programme, which kickstarts researchers’ so-crazy-it-just-might-work ideas

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Mars is so small because Jupiter shook up its formation

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NASA orbiter shows Mars lost 90 per cent of its CO₂ to space

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Backwards asteroid shares an orbit with Jupiter without crashing

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Electrified sand could explain Titan’s odd backward-facing dunes

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