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Strange three-lobed asteroid seems to have its own tiny moon
The asteroid 44 Nysa was first spotted more than 150 years ago, but we are only now finally figuring out its weird shape and mysterious formation
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The most detailed survey of the universe ever conducted starts now
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We’ve found a mysterious substance on Titan and Pluto
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Gas from Uranus reveals it has an icy centre
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Hundreds of new moons are revealing our solar system’s violent history
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Mercury may have gained all of its unexpected water in a single day
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The rings of Uranus are even stranger than we thought
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We鈥檝e caught a comet switching its spin direction for the first time
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Earth may have formed from two separate rings around the sun
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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 鈥� and revealed a mystery
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We鈥檝e spotted a huge asteroid spinning impossibly fast
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NASA changed an asteroid’s orbit around the sun for the first time
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How to see six planets in the sky at once in rare celestial alignment
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What to read this week: Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean by Dagomar Degroot
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