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Dwarf planet Ceres looks like an asteroid but acts like a comet

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Dwarf planet Ceres looks like an asteroid but acts like a comet

Shiny spots and minerals on Ceres suggest it may have been born in the outer solar system, and that our classification of asteroids and planets is wrong

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Japanese Akatsuki probe enters Venus orbit after inspired hack

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Japanese Akatsuki probe enters Venus orbit after inspired hack

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New Horizons releases first images of Pluto in sharpest focus

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New Horizons releases first images of Pluto in sharpest focus

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Northern Lights now appear in central Europe and much of US

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Northern Lights now appear in central Europe and much of US

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Pathfinder blasts off to look for Einstein's gravitational waves

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Pathfinder blasts off to look for Einstein's gravitational waves

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LISA Pathfinder spacecraft ready for lift-off

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LISA Pathfinder spacecraft ready for lift-off

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Pairs of habitable worlds could throw microbes at each other

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Chinese satellite to shine a light on mysterious dark matter

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Chinese satellite to shine a light on mysterious dark matter

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Spacecraft that will put Einstein to the test ready for lift-off

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Spacecraft that will put Einstein to the test ready for lift-off

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Flying gold knocked the moon off course and ruined eclipses

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Flying gold knocked the moon off course and ruined eclipses

The same space rocks that brought precious metals to Earth's surface also knocked the moon's orbit off-kilter, robbing us of twice-monthly eclipses

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Pluto deserves better than a one-night stand

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Beyond Pluto: New Horizons probe aims for another unseen world

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Pluto kept alive by antifreeze – other icy worlds could be too

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Our moon would be a planet under new definition of planethood

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