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Thousands of Elite Dangerous players embark on epic space voyage
What exciting discoveries await the Elite Dangerous mission to the Milky Way鈥檚 outer edges? It鈥檚 not run by NASA but the epic sciencey game feels like the real deal
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Ultima Thule is a snowman-shaped rock covered in weird ice
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Crashing tidal waves may lurk beneath the surface of icy moons
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Massive space rock smash-up with Uranus recreated in a riot of colour
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NASA probe will hurtle past the most distant object we鈥檝e ever visited
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A new dwarf planet called Farout is the most distant we鈥檝e ever seen
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First close-up look shows asteroid Bennu is a holey watery world
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Interstellar asteroid 鈥極umuamua slipped by NASA space telescope unseen
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Earth may be made up of rocks blasted by gusts of solar wind
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We don鈥檛 need stars to navigate space – black holes work way better
If you want to find your way across the universe, forget using stars or GPS. The light from quasars billions of light years away can guide us and even help here on Earth
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Revealed: the first ever picture of the sun’s north pole
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NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx set to start mission at asteroid Bennu
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Earth may have a pair of ‘ghost moons’ made of dust trapped in orbit
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The BepiColombo spacecraft is about to blast off to Mercury
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