Space
The BepiColombo spacecraft is about to blast off to Mercury
On 20 October, the BepiColombo spacecraft will begin a 7-year journey to Mercury, where it will orbit and investigate the many mysteries of Mercury
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Physics
Don’t miss 鈥� a dance of death, musical exploration and maps from light
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Space
Cassini revealed three big surprises before diving into Saturn
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Space
Distant dwarf planet called ‘The Goblin’ could point to Planet X
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Space
10 mysteries of the universe: Is our solar system normal?
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Earth
NASA鈥檚 deep-space mission to a $10 quintillion all-metal world
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Space
Forgotten giants: Why the time is ripe to revisit Uranus and Neptune
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Space
Why weird star systems are where we’ll find alien life
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Space
Mars could have been habitable 100 million years before Earth
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Space
Lightning reveals where Jupiter stores its 鈥榤issing鈥� water
Decades ago a space probe found less water on Jupiter than expected, and now astronomers have tracked some of that water down by mapping lightning storms
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Space
Ripples in Saturn鈥檚 rings unravel mystery of how fast it spins
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Environment
Methane ice and winds on Pluto make strange ‘sand’ dunes
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Space
Pluto is not a planet 鈥� it’s a billion comets squished together
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Space
Frankenstein planets may form from the wreckage of dead worlds
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