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Sleepy sun could make Mars trips deadly

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Sleepy sun could make Mars trips deadly

An unexpected lull in the sun's activity will let more cosmic radiation into the solar system, endangering astronauts on long interplanetary missions

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Saturn's moon Mimas might have its own subsurface sea

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Saturn's moon Mimas might have its own subsurface sea

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Lunar volcanoes suggest the moon may still be warm

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Rosetta's latest selfie: just showing off now

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Rosetta's latest selfie: just showing off now

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Lunar volcanoes suggest the moon may still be warm

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Lunar volcanoes suggest the moon may still be warm

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Explosive meteors may have seasonal peaks

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Explosive meteors may have seasonal peaks

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Moon water blew in on solar wind

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Moon water blew in on solar wind

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Shuttle map gives the best view yet of Earth's curves

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Earth gets a new companion for trip around sun

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India's Mars triumph signals a rising space power

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India's Mars triumph signals a rising space power

With a low-cost Mars mission in the win column, the Indian space programme is setting its sights on more ambitious goals elsewhere in the solar system

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Up to half of Earth's water is older than the sun

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Spacecraft duo beam back their first Mars snaps

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US probe enters Mars orbit, Indian craft close behind

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Strangest star: 6 things we didn't know about the sun

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