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Bright spots on Ceres could be water volcanoes
Images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft show that a mysterious bright spot on dwarf planet Ceres could be a plume of water spurting from a deep, icy crater
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Space
Weather forecast for early Earth involved iron rain
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Life
Lava could have preserved the origins of life on the moon
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Space
#RosettaWatch: My summer holiday around a comet
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Earth
Huge circle in Antarctic ice hints at meteorite impact
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Earth
60 Seconds
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Space
#Rosettawatch: first snaps of Philae’s arrival on 67P
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Space
#RosettaWatch: Comet lander could wake up next year
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Space
Star’s flying visit could fling comets at Earth
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Life
Asteroid soil could fertilise farms in space
We can now grow plants in microgravity – and crops grown in asteroid soil could sustain vast human populations off-planet
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Life
Ponds or pounding are both possible origins for life
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Space
#RosettaWatch: Comet water is not like Earth’s
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Life
Formation of life’s building blocks recreated in lab
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Space
Know thy enemy: the million space rocks we must find
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