Life
Rip up the rule book and let NASA’s Mars rover check ‘life’ zone
Contamination fears should not stop NASA sending its Mars rover to examine a nearby area that might contain water鈥� and life, says Dirk Schulze-Makuch
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Hubble spots a new long-lived storm raging on Neptune
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Pluto must have liquid ocean or it’d look like an overripe peach
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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
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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
The weird orbits of some bodies in the outer solar system reveal they are booty from an interstellar smash and grab raid, says astronomer Simon Portegies Zwart
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Space
Your explosive guide to the end of the universe
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Rare cosmic balancing act makes Perseid meteor showers brighter
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Physics
Bloated baby black holes spotted in the distant universe
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Earth
Cranky young sun could have kickstarted life on Earth
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