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Let’s embrace the joy of moonmoons and more playful scientific terms
Some say the astronomical term moonmoon makes light of a serious field of study, but it seems a shame to abandon it for po-faced alternatives
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Moons can have moons and they are called moonmoons
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Jupiter’s moon Europa may have a belt of 15-metre-tall ice spikes
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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
Saturn’s moon Enceladus spews plumes of water into space, and it’s also spitting out complex organic molecules that could be the building blocks of life
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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
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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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