Life
Did dark matter kill the dinosaurs? Maybe…
The link between the most mysterious stuff in the universe and fatal comet strikes on Earth is tenuous – but it would elegantly connect two open questions
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Environment
Incoming ‘Moby Dick’ asteroid goes missing near Earth
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Space
Spectacular Mars crater is a big blue boom
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Space
Dwarf planet caught spitting inside asteroid belt
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Space
Snooze-button glitch delayed Rosetta’s wake-up
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Space
Up and at ’em: Rosetta craft gaining on target comet
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Life
Water found in stardust suggests life is universal
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Space
Billion-dollar call: Waiting for Rosetta to phone home
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Earth
AD 536: The year that winter never ended
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Space
Wake up and smell the comet: Rousing the Rosetta probe
Asleep in the dark near Jupiter, a spacecraft is almost ready to make the first ever landing on a comet – if we can wake it. Stuart Clark joins mission control
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Space
2014 preview: First touchdown on a speeding comet
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Space
Infrared reveals stunning colours of asteroid’s crust
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Rare space rock goes unnoticed for 140 years
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Earth
Did asteroid fracking cause Earth’s worst extinction?
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