Life
Humans can bug-out to Mars without ruining search for life
We sterilise spacecraft bound for Mars, but we can't sterilise humans. A mock Martian trek in the Arctic shows we won't need to, our microbes don't spread as we feared
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Earth
Dual asteroid strike hints at chaos in the inner solar system
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Space
NASA plans first interplanetary CubeSat mission for Mars lander
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Physics
Philae awakes: What next for probe after 7 month nap on comet?
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Space
#RosettaWatch: Search party may have found missing lander Philae
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Space
How New Horizons will probe mysteries of Pluto’s oddball moons
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Space
First visit to Pluto could rewrite the solar system’s story
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Space
Dwarf or planet? First visit to Pluto could reignite the row
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Space
Our exploration of the solar system is just getting started
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Space
Sunlight could whip up water to slake lunar settlers’ thirst
Moonshine might need a new definition on the moon: sunshine falling on to frosty lunar rocks could distil water for future colonists
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Space
Pluto’s strange family of moons are locked in a mysterious waltz
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Physics
Giant telescope in Hawaii gets go-ahead, if others shut down
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Space
#RosettaWatch: 67P formed when two baby comets got together
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Life
Mission to Europa will test Jupiter moon’s friendliness to life
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