Space
ESA eyes Venus mission or space telescope to launch by 2030
The European Space Agency has three finalists for a mission to launch by 2030: a Venus probe and two space telescopes to view ancient gamma rays and young stars
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Jupiter’s hefty twin found just 12 light years away
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Gooey nitrogen ice may make Pluto鈥檚 crater-free heart look young
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Dwarf planet Ceres has a water cycle but it鈥檚 not like Earth鈥檚
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The moon may have formed in a vaporised, doughnut-shaped Earth
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Mars has ice sheets 130 metres thick hiding below its red dust
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Environment
Mars rocks may have drunk up all the water and doomed life there
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Physics
Moon鈥檚 explosive birth drove iron deep into Earth’s core
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Signs of running water on Mars dunes are probably just dry sand
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We may know why Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is red instead of white
The gases in Jupiter's atmosphere should form white clouds, so why do they look red? Two teams have found different recipes for the red in the Great Red Spot
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Boiling water on Mars could make the planet’s sand levitate
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A 300-kilometre space rock has vanished since we saw it in 1995
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Environment
Volcanoes that spew stretchy ice could make dwarf planets bright
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A gaggle of 7 moons keep Saturn鈥檚 rings from breaking apart
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