Space
NASA’s Messenger spacecraft makes final tour of Mercury
As the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury makes one last boost and risks melting its instruments, find out how you can name one of the innermost planet's impact craters
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‘Super-powered oven’ suggests Venus once had continents
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Physics
Galaxy-mapping megacamera falls victim to loose fibres
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Space
Europa’s geysers disappear in a cloud of mystery
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Space
Star’s flying visit could fling comets at Earth
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Humans
The piste at the end of the universe
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2015 preview: Pluto gets ready for its first close-up
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Soggy space rocks brought water to young moon
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Physics
The sun and Jupiter could reveal space-time ripples
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Life
Formation of life’s building blocks recreated in lab
Recreating a meteorite impact with a laser has demonstrated directly how the building blocks of the genetic code could have formed on our primordial planet
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Space
Pluto probe prepares to wake after nine-year journey
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Giant galactic gas ‘blow out’ seen for the first time
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Know thy enemy: the million space rocks we must find
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Join our shoestring mission to find life on Europa
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