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It could be snowing on Mars right now

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It could be snowing on Mars right now

The Red Planet may have had intense snowstorms long ago when it was wetter, but a model shows it could still have violent snowfall at night when the clouds cool

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Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden

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Win lunch with an astronaut

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A rendering of a Moon Express spacecraft

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Google-sponsored private moon race delayed for the fourth time

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Tethered satellites could see the moon’s weird swirls up close

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Tethered satellites could see the moon’s weird swirls up close

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Moon’s magnetic field lasted twice as long as we thought it did

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Moon’s magnetic field lasted twice as long as we thought it did

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Nuclear reactors on rockets may fuel future crewed trips to Mars

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Nuclear reactors on rockets may fuel future crewed trips to Mars

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A white dust devil against the red Martian surface

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Mars’s surface hosts millions of towering dust devils every day

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Giant loner asteroids suggest baby planets formed quickly

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Giant loner asteroids suggest baby planets formed quickly

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Watering space cucumbers

Life

Space cucumbers may help plants grow better water-seeking roots

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Enormous exoplanet has an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron

Space

Enormous exoplanet has an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron

A planet nearly double the size of Jupiter and 900 light years away has a glowing stratosphere and an atmosphere hot enough that iron there exists as a vapour

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Fast radio bursts may be dark matter ‘stars’ hitting black holes

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First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away

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Smallest satellite ever paves way for planned interstellar fleet

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Physics

Bigger bang theory: teach atoms new tricks to beef up explosives

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