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A spherical rocky body being destroyed in a collision.

Space

Hundreds of new moons are revealing our solar system's violent history

The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming into view, revealing hints of a surprising past – and the origin of Saturn's rings

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Ice on Mercury

Space

Mercury may have gained all of its unexpected water in a single day

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Space

The rings of Uranus are even stranger than we thought

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We may finally have a cure for many different autoimmune conditions

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Can we ‘vaccinate’ ourselves against stress?

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Can we ‘vaccinate’ ourselves against stress?

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How autoimmune conditions can unexpectedly drive mental illness

Mind

How autoimmune conditions can unexpectedly drive mental illness

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artist's concept of comet 41P

Space

We’ve caught a comet switching its spin direction for the first time

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Illustration of a CAR T cell with an implanted gene strain, which makes up the genetic modification process required for it to fight rogue cells in the body

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CAR T-cell therapy takes woman from bedridden to 'perfectly fine'

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Space

Earth may have formed from two separate rings around the sun

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Space

Mysterious comet disintegration caught by telescope after lucky break

Catching a comet in the process of falling apart is difficult, but a coincidence let astronomers see one in more detail than ever before using the Hubble Space Telescope – and revealed a mystery

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Space

We’ve spotted a huge asteroid spinning impossibly fast

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Space

NASA changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun for the first time

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Space

How to see six planets in the sky at once in rare celestial alignment

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Space

What to read this week: Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean by Dagomar Degroot

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