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Hubble Space Telescope

Watering space cucumbers

Life

Space cucumbers may help plants grow better water-seeking roots

Away from Earth’s gravity, cucumber roots head towards water. Mimicking that moisture-seeking behaviour on our planet could help plants adapt to drought

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Enormous exoplanet has an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron

Space

Enormous exoplanet has an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron

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Fast radio bursts may be dark matter ‘stars’ hitting black holes

Space

Fast radio bursts may be dark matter ‘stars’ hitting black holes

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First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away

Space

First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away

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Smallest satellite ever paves way for planned interstellar fleet

Space

Smallest satellite ever paves way for planned interstellar fleet

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explosion in desert

Physics

Bigger bang theory: teach atoms new tricks to beef up explosives

Features

Elon Musk seems to have ditched Red Dragon lander plan for Mars

Space

Elon Musk seems to have ditched Red Dragon lander plan for Mars

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We could build a galactic internet but it may take 300,000 years

Space

We could build a galactic internet but it may take 300,000 years

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Illustration showing Moon Express probe against lunar backdrop

Space

Robotic landers could start mining the moon as early as 2020

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First close-ups of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot from Juno flyby

Space

First close-ups of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot from Juno flyby

The closest-ever observations of our solar system’s biggest storm could tell us how deep into Jupiter it extends and how it has continued to rage for centuries

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Space

Mike Pence says he touched NASA equipment on a dare

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Space

Rocket failure may delay China’s space station and moon missions

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Earth

Why Morocco loves its meteorites

Culture

Space

Sun’s gravity could power interstellar video streaming

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