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The New Horizons spacecraft is heading towards a mystery rock
Astrophile is our Joshua Sokol's column covering curious cosmic objects from within the solar system to the furthest reaches of the multiverse
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We may know why Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is red instead of white
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We just sent a message to try to talk to aliens on another world
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A layer of haze keeps Pluto’s atmosphere extremely cold
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We’ve just found a nearby exoplanet that could be right for life
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We found our galactic twin 180 million light years away
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Neptune’s other moons were normal until Triton crashed the party
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Tracking the first interstellar asteroid back to its home star
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Giant star smash-up may have made the biggest neutron star ever
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We may have found 20 habitable worlds hiding in plain sight
After taking another look at data from the Kepler space telescope’s original mission we have spotted 20 possible Earth-like worlds that could host life
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We may have just seen the first comet from another solar system
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Possible exomoon may be an ocean-covered world as big as Saturn
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Why our ‘freakish’ galaxy has got cosmologists seriously worried
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The 5 biggest discoveries from the hunt for gravitational waves
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