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The Mysterious NWA 15915

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Weird meteorite may be relic of lost planet that no longer exists

A meteorite discovered in north-west Africa in 2023 didn’t come from a large asteroid or any of the known planets of the solar system – but it might have formed on a planet that was destroyed long ago

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Mars appears light blue in this near-infrared image from the Hera spacecraft, with its moon Deimos represented by a dark mark towards the centre of the image

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Hera asteroid mission takes stunning images of Mars’s moon Deimos

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Saturn gains 128 moons, giving it more than the other planets combined

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There’s a tiny chance the asteroid headed for Earth could hit the moon

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How meteorites are rewriting the history of the solar system

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Mars and Phobos. Computer artwork of how Mars (left) and its tiny moon Phobos (upper centre) might appear from a distance of about 100 miles from the surface of Phobos. Phobos is the larger of Mars' two satellites (the other being Deimos), being about 16 miles long and about 11 miles across at its smallest dimension. It may be an asteroid long ago captured by Mars' gravity and does not have enough mass for gravity to pull it into a uniform sphere like the larger satellites and planets in the Solar System.

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Why we must investigate Phobos, the solar system's strangest object

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Most detailed survey of particles around the sun reveals new mysteries

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Scratching an itch could help boost your immune defences

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Environment

Farms can install vertical solar panels without reducing crop yields

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How to see all the solar system’s planets in the night sky at once

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – here’s how to spot the celestial show

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Environment

Reliance on wind and solar does expose nations to energy price spikes

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The physicist on a mission to understand Mercury's epic solar storms

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BepiColombo snaps Mercury's dark craters and volcanic plains

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'Killer' cells explain differences in immunity between the sexes

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