Life
Solar system mysteries: Where can life exist?
We used to think life was constrained to a narrow, warm band around a star – but recent discoveries on icy moons suggest life could exist almost anywhere
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Space
Solar system mysteries: Why is the sun magnetic?
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Space
Solar system mysteries: What happened to Venus?
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Space
Solar system mysteries: What’s inside Saturn?
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Humans
Solar system mysteries: Could we live on the moon?
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Space
Hints that ‘Planet Nine’ may exist on edge of our solar system
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Space
Solar system mysteries: Is there a planet X?
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Physics
New rumours that gravitational waves have finally been detected
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Space
Philae lander fails to respond to last-ditch efforts to wake it
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Space
Migrating giant planets might eat their own life-friendly moons
We're actively searching for exomoons – which orbit planets around other stars – without luck. Maybe that's because they didn't survive
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Life
Dark Matter and the dinosaurs: A quest for grown-ups
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Space
New kind of moon rock found by Chinese Yutu rover
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Space
NASA probe to visit Jupiter to look for water and map clouds
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Space
Dwarf planet Ceres looks like an asteroid but acts like a comet
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