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Cassini circling Saturn

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Saturn probe Cassini hoovers up dust from distant stars

A rare haul of interstellar dust was picked up in orbit around Saturn, and could give us clues to how the solar system formed from the remnants of other stars

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Front page of The Sun newspaper, headlined 'World's end'

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Ease up doom mongers, Planet Nine is not about to destroy us

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Brown pockmarked and streaked surface of Phobos

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Mars moons may have formed after collision with Pluto-like world

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The play <i>X</i> will have you clock-watching - but in a good way

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The play X will have you clock-watching - but in a good way

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The Pleiades star cluster: it might have been the sun's nursery

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Planet Nine might be an exoplanet stolen by the sun

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Pluto showing heart-shaped

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Pluto may have tipped over when Charon tugged at its heart

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Long-term view of extreme cosmic burst challenges astronomers

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Long-term view of extreme cosmic burst challenges astronomers

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A hypothetical view of Planet Nine

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More evidence for Planet Nine as odd celestial alignment emerges

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Titan

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Bubbling ocean on Saturn’s moon could explain vanishing island

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Full moon

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Moon’s lack of water down to ancient shift in its spin axis

Molten rock flowing beneath the moon's crust billions of years ago shifted the moon's spin axis, hinting that lunar water stores date back to the very early solar system

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Ceres surprises with water ice and colourful bright spots

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Pluto: A whole new world in 5 strange photos

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Pluto may have hosted lakes and rivers of liquid nitrogen

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Pluto gives up its icy secrets as New Horizons data pours in

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