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鈥楩orbidden鈥� planet somehow escaped consumption by its dying host star
The planet 8 Ursae Minoris b should have been destroyed when its star became a red giant, but it continues to orbit strangely close to it
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Mars may have a huge plume of hot rocks rising towards its surface
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Meteorite impacts show Mars鈥檚 crust is denser than we thought
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Quakes on Mars reveal there may be magma beneath the surface
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Why Mars has captured our hopes and fears for millennia
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Watch a lunar occultation of Uranus
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Blasting plastic with powerful lasers turns it into tiny diamonds
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Environment
Our neighbouring planets can help us understand Earth’s climate change
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JWST could soon tell us what exoplanets’ surfaces are made of
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A passing star shifting Neptune鈥檚 orbit could wreck the solar system
If a star flying past our solar system moved Neptune's orbit by just 0.1 per cent, it could eventually cause the other planets to smash into one another or get thrown out of the solar system entirely
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Stunning solar prominences shine in photography competition
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Ancient meteorite upends our ideas of how Mars formed
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One in every 50 planets may have been stolen from other stars
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NASA should explore Uranus and Enceladus, say planetary scientists
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