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Japanese Akatsuki probe enters Venus orbit after inspired hack

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Japanese Akatsuki probe enters Venus orbit after inspired hack

Novel use of secondary thrusters made it second time lucky for Akatsuki, which botched its original encounter with the planet in 2010

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New Horizons releases first images of Pluto in sharpest focus

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New Horizons releases first images of Pluto in sharpest focus

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Pairs of habitable worlds could throw microbes at each other

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A threesome may explain behaviour of galaxy's most bizarre star

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A threesome may explain behaviour of galaxy's most bizarre star

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Weirdly tilted planet knocks formation theory out of line

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Weirdly tilted planet knocks formation theory out of line

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Thieving Milky Way stole distant star cluster from neighbour

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Thieving Milky Way stole distant star cluster from neighbour

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Baby photos of distant planet are first to capture formation

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Baby photos of distant planet are first to capture formation

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Our moon would be a planet under new definition of planethood

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Our moon would be a planet under new definition of planethood

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Coming soon: first weather report from super-Venus exoplanet

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Coming soon: first weather report from super-Venus exoplanet

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Most distant solar system object yet could hint at hidden planet

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Most distant solar system object yet could hint at hidden planet

A newly discovered rocky body is more than three times more distant than Pluto. It and its companions could help solve a mystery about the outer solar system

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Pluto surprises with ice volcanoes and alien weather

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Hot Jupiters may have formed through planetary billiards

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NASA probe shows how solar burps may have stripped Mars of water

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NASA debates where to land on Mars – but are we ready to go?

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