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asteroids

Artwork of an asteroid zooming away from us with lots of cogs and engine parts attached to its backside

Space

Our top 5 wacky NASA missions that might just happen

NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts programme funds long-shot concepts for further study. This year's include a paper-thin spaceship and a steampunk Venus rover

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Artwork of a bombardment of asteroids

Space

Asteroid barrage may have birthed a short-lived ocean on Mars

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Three satellites surround an asteroid

Space

Luxembourg's asteroid mining bid is Europe’s first

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A CubeSat orbiting the moon scans its pole for water

Space

NASA CubeSat missions will pave way for human space flight

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Philae lander fails to respond to last-ditch efforts to wake it

Space

Philae lander fails to respond to last-ditch efforts to wake it

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Famous Wow! signal might have been from comets, not aliens

Space

Famous Wow! signal might have been from comets, not aliens

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Dwarf planet Ceres looks like an asteroid but acts like a comet

Space

Dwarf planet Ceres looks like an asteroid but acts like a comet

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Rosetta's comet has oxygen made before the solar system's birth

Space

Rosetta's comet has oxygen made before the solar system's birth

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Volcanoes plus asteroid might have finished off dinosaurs

Life

Volcanoes plus asteroid might have finished off dinosaurs

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Budget NASA missions will head for asteroids or hellish Venus

Space

Budget NASA missions will head for asteroids or hellish Venus

Targets for a 2020 space mission include our hellishly hot neighbour or a heavy metal asteroid called Psyche

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Space

Rosettawatch: Comet 67P's weather revealed as sun melts ice

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Earth

Total eclipse glowing over icy pyramids wins photo prize

Regulars

Space

Citizen scientists catch cloud of comets orbiting distant star

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Space

Winking exoplanets could shed light on distant comet strikes

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