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Dwarf planet Quaoar has a weirdly big ring of debris encircling it
Quaoar, a dwarf planet in our solar system, has a ring of debris orbiting it that is far further out than we thought the laws of physics allow
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Hayabusa 2 has brought back gases from an asteroid for the first time
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Astronomers found a weird asteroid closer to the sun than any other
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A long-lost rogue planet could explain unexpectedly distant asteroids
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NASA鈥檚 Juno spacecraft takes closest images of Europa for 20 years
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JWST has captured an astonishing view of Neptune and its rings
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Saturn’s rings could have come from a destroyed moon named Chrysalis
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Our neighbouring planets can help us understand Earth’s climate change
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Humans
The Moonday Letters review: Genre-busting sci-fi extols hope as a duty
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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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Moon rocks collected by the Chang鈥檈 5 mission have water in them
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Why the next big solar storm might hit Earth without warning
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Pairs of giant planets may make their star systems ultra-habitable
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We now know how the mysterious ridges covering Europa鈥檚 surface formed
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