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Earth may have been born in a huge flare-up of the young sun
A sudden brightening of the infant sun – called an FU Orionis outburst – could have melted dust grains and made them stick together, building our world
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Watch Cassini’s first two dives between Saturn and its rings
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Marvel at the images from Cassini’s first Grand Finale orbit
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First look at images from Cassini’s dive between Saturn’s rings
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Infrared telescope spots mystery flare-ups in distant galaxies
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Distant DeeDee could be a new dwarf planet
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Satellite swarms could increase space junk risk by 50 per cent
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Many tiny galaxies could host mammoth black holes
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Saturn’s flying saucer moon Atlas has a smooth fluffy edge
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Mars’s atmosphere hosts metal layers that shouldn’t exist
Earth’s magnetic field provokes layers of iron and magnesium in the atmosphere, but Mars has no such field - so finding similar layers is a surprise
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Water telescope uses gamma rays to track new kind of pulsar
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New approach to dark energy might explain our cooling universe
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NASA funds radical Pluto hopper and cosmic echolocation concepts
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Mars is so small because Jupiter shook up its formation
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