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Artist's impression of a grandly ringed future Mars

Space

Mars might already be building rings from its moons

Simulations show that Mars will rip its moon Phobos into a ring in a few million years – but proto-rings may already exist

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Dwarf planet Ceres hosts home-grown organic material

Life

Dwarf planet Ceres hosts home-grown organic material

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Uranus

Space

Far-off asteroid caught cohabiting with Uranus around the sun

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Mars landing sites for 2020 NASA mission down to the final three

Space

Mars landing sites for 2020 NASA mission down to the final three

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A fountain of lava

Earth

Secrets of Earth's birth carried in lava jets from planet's core

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Magnetic meteorites narrow down solar system’s birthdate

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Magnetic meteorites narrow down solar system’s birthdate

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Lander looking for life

Space

NASA wants to put a lander on Europa’s surface to look for life

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Trinity nuclear bomb test

Space

Glass from nuclear test site shows the moon was born dry

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Space junk satellite

Space

Space junk collector burns up after hitting snag in first test

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Sun's disc

Space

Sun's rotation is slowed down by its own photons

The sun's layers slow the escape of photons of sunlight, and when they finally stream away they return the favour by slowing the rotation of its outer layer

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Space

Old Scientist: Into the twilight zone of dubious causation

Regulars

Space

Tiny spacecraft could brake at exoplanet using alien starlight

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Earth

Earth’s water must have arrived here earlier than we thought

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Space

Curiosity finds Mars rock that may be a meteorite made from iron

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