Space
Grand Theft Sedna: how the sun might have stolen a mini-planet
Sedna is one of several "ice dwarfs" in our solar system with bizarre orbits. Could the young sun's gravity have snatched them from a passing star?
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Life
Lava lakes spotted on Venus may be how it stays so blemish-free
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Life
Humans can bug-out to Mars without ruining search for life
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Earth
Dual asteroid strike hints at chaos in the inner solar system
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Space
NASA plans first interplanetary CubeSat mission for Mars lander
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Physics
Philae awakes: What next for probe after 7 month nap on comet?
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Space
#RosettaWatch: Search party may have found missing lander Philae
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How New Horizons will probe mysteries of Pluto’s oddball moons
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Space
First visit to Pluto could rewrite the solar system’s story
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Space
Dwarf or planet? First visit to Pluto could reignite the row
How many solar system planets are there: eight, nine? Or 73 or 74? Arguments swirl on nine years after Pluto was struck off the official list
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Space
Our exploration of the solar system is just getting started
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Space
Sunlight could whip up water to slake lunar settlers’ thirst
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Space
Pluto’s strange family of moons are locked in a mysterious waltz
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Physics
Giant telescope in Hawaii gets go-ahead, if others shut down
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