Space
Jupiter’s moon Europa may have a belt of 15-metre-tall ice spikes
Landing on Jupiter’s moon Europa will be even harder than we thought due to a forbidding belt of huge ice spikes that could trap or incapacitate a spacecraft
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First known exomoon could be a baffling monster the size of Neptune
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Why a rake on the moon messed up our theories of life on Earth
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Mystery cold spot on Jupiter’s moon Europa could be ‘almost anything’
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We could find life on Europa by just scratching its surface
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Spectacular new photos of Titan show Saturn’s moon like never before
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We’ve found 12 new moons orbiting Jupiter – and one is probably doomed
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Enceladus is spewing out organic molecules necessary for life
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Environment
A day used to be less than 19 hours long 1.4 billion years ago
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Why Saturn’s inner moons look like ravioli, cigars and potatoes
The small moons that orbit in Saturn’s rings have a range of odd shapes, all of which may have come from smaller moonlets crashing into one another and merging
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Falling mini-moons may have created Earth’s first continents
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Probe saw plumes on Europa 20 years ago – we just didn’t notice
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Young Saturn gave Jupiter the building blocks for its big moons
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Earth
Earth had water even before the collision that made the moon
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