Space
Looking back at Viking, the first mission to Mars
Forty years ago, the Viking mission set the stage for real science in space – and without a human in sight. The Smithsonian pays tribute
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Homebrew meteorites reveal origins of Mercury’s weird crust
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Life
Rip up the rule book and let NASA’s Mars rover check ‘life’ zone
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Space
Hubble spots a new long-lived storm raging on Neptune
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Space
Pluto must have liquid ocean or it’d look like an overripe peach
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I smelled comet 67P’s deadly pong and lived to tell the tale
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Asteroids keep their rings safe from gas giants’ clutches
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Physics
The alien world that’s being vaporised by a death ray
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Life
Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?
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Life
Ocean worlds could host life under layers of high-pressure ice
Models of ice formation at high pressure suggest there could be habitable liquid water at the bottom of incredibly deep alien oceans
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Space
Massive exoplanet’s close dance is making its star spin faster
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Space
How the sun abducted dwarf planets from an alien solar system
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Space
Your explosive guide to the end of the universe
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Space
Rare cosmic balancing act makes Perseid meteor showers brighter
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