Life
Two missions face off to seek life in icy seas of Enceladus
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been sampling the plumes on Saturn's moon for a decade, with no sign of microbes. Two proposed missions hope to change that
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Needle formation lets space rubble sneak up on us
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Space
Prodigal gas cloud was born in Milky Way and is crashing back in
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Space
Little galaxy’s own stars cast 95 per cent of its oxygen away
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Space
Japanese Akatsuki probe enters Venus orbit after inspired hack
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Space
New Horizons releases first images of Pluto in sharpest focus
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Life
Pairs of habitable worlds could throw microbes at each other
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Space
A threesome may explain behaviour of galaxy’s most bizarre star
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Physics
Weirdly tilted planet knocks formation theory out of line
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Space
Thieving Milky Way stole distant star cluster from neighbour
The Crater cluster, discovered in 2013, is so odd it must have been snatched from one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies
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Space
Baby photos of distant planet are first to capture formation
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Space
Our moon would be a planet under new definition of planethood
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Space
Coming soon: first weather report from super-Venus exoplanet
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Space
Most distant solar system object yet could hint at hidden planet
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