Space
Cosmic carve-up: Law and plunder on the final frontier
The US wants to press ahead with asteroid mining, but rights to the riches buried in space are a grey area. How should we draw up rules for harvesting the heavens?
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Space
NASA approves new far-flung destination for Pluto space probe
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Space
Looking back at Viking, the first mission to Mars
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Space
Homebrew meteorites reveal origins of Mercury鈥檚 weird crust
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Life
Rip up the rule book and let NASA’s Mars rover check ‘life’ zone
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Space
Hubble spots a new long-lived storm raging on Neptune
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Space
Pluto must have liquid ocean or it’d look like an overripe peach
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Space
I smelled comet 67P’s deadly pong and lived to tell the tale
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Asteroids keep their rings safe from gas giants鈥� clutches
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Physics
The alien world that’s being vaporised by a death ray
Astrophile is Joshua Sokol's monthly column on curious cosmic objects, from the solar system to the far reaches of the multiverse
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Life
Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?
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Life
Ocean worlds could host life under layers of high-pressure ice
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Space
Massive exoplanet鈥檚 close dance is making its star spin faster
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Space
How the sun abducted dwarf planets from an alien solar system
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