Pluto’s ice-capped peaks are like Earth’s—but not
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Water on Mars: Discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists
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Phosphine discovered in Venus' atmosphere, which could be evidence of microbial life
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Analysis of data from the end of NASA's Dawn mission confirms that the dwarf planet Ceres is an ocean world with a deep reservoir of salt-enriched water
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Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers
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Italian amateur astronomer captures amazing photo of Mercury’s comet-like sodium tail
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Could solar storms destroy civilization? Solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
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Freaky ‘active’ object in Jupiter’s orbit is first of its kind seen by astronomers
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“Overstressed” NASA Mars exploration budget threatens missions
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Planetary science decadal survey to include astrobiology and planetary defense
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A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to data from the first year of NASA's InSight lander mission
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New exoplanet search strategy claims first discovery
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Diving and driving on icy moons: One strategy for exploring Enceladus and Europa
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The self-hammering probe on NASA’s Mars lander can’t seem to actually dig into the ground
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Tunnelling mole instrument on Mars InSight lander resumes movement into Martian surface
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Twenty new moons found orbiting Saturn, making it the planet with the most known moons
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‘Planet Nine’ may actually be a black hole
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Could we terraform Mars?
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Hubble reveals latest portrait of Saturn
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Water found in habitable super-Earth's atmosphere for first time
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What has NASA's Juno discovered around Jupiter so far? (three year update)
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India's Chandrayaan-2 mission ready for historic landing on the Moon
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Death dive to Saturn
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NASA chooses Saturn’s moon Titan as its next destination as part of Project DragonFly—a drone mission to explore Titan's surface over two years
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NASA rover on Mars detects high amounts of methane gas, hinting at possibility of life
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Ancient Babylonian astronomers calculated Jupiter’s position from the area under a time-velocity graph
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The 'forbidden' planet has been found in the 'Neptunian Desert'
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Inside NASA’s race back to Neptune’s icy moon Triton
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Will we find extraterrestrial life on ice worlds? Why Europa is the place to go for alien life.
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Mars methane hunt comes up empty, flummoxing scientists
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Something on Mars is producing gas usually made by living things on Earth
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Venus is not Earth's closest neighbour
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Engineers still studying problem with InSight heat flow probe
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Breathtaking new NASA images show Jupiter’s otherworldy storms
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Meet Hippocamp! Neptune's smallest moon has a name (and a violent past)
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Mars: NASA lands InSight robot to study planet's interior
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Moons around 'rogue planets' could sustain life — no solar system required
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China is about to visit uncharted territory on the moon
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Five in a row - the planets align in the night sky
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Astronomers have found an exoplanet around the same star that Vulcan orbits in Star Trek canon
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TESS is doing better than expected in hunt for exoplanets
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Bizarre “rogue planet” found lurking in Earth’s galactic neighborhood
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Radar evidence of subglacial liquid water on Mars
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Jupiter’s got twelve new moons — one is a bit of a problem child
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How NASA’s mission to Pluto was nearly lost
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Scientists find evidence of complex organic molecules from Enceladus
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One of the thickest Martian dust storms has caused NASA's Opportunity rover to suspend science operations
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Juno solves thirty-nine-year old mystery of Jupiter lightning
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A new world’s extraordinary orbit points to planet nine
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover is able to drill holes into rocks again
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