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Crashing tidal waves may lurk beneath the surface of icy moons

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Crashing tidal waves may lurk beneath the surface of icy moons

Enceladus and Europa both have liquid oceans under their shells of ice, and they may be full of tidal waves bouncing energy between their cores and surfaces

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Massive space rock smash-up with Uranus recreated in a riot of colour

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Massive space rock smash-up with Uranus recreated in a riot of colour

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NASA probe will hurtle past the most distant object we’ve ever visited

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NASA probe will hurtle past the most distant object we’ve ever visited

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A new dwarf planet called Farout is the most distant we’ve ever seen

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A new dwarf planet called Farout is the most distant we’ve ever seen

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Asteroid 101955 Bennu

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First close-up look shows asteroid Bennu is a holey watery world

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Interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua slipped by NASA space telescope unseen

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Interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua slipped by NASA space telescope unseen

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Earth may be made up of rocks blasted by gusts of solar wind

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Earth may be made up of rocks blasted by gusts of solar wind

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We don’t need stars to navigate space - black holes work way better

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Revealed: the first ever picture of the sun's north pole

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Revealed: the first ever picture of the sun's north pole

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Asteroid 101955 Bennu

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NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx set to start mission at asteroid Bennu

The OSIRIS-REx mission is set to arrive at its destination, the asteroid Bennu, which gets dangerously close to Earth and may tell us about the early solar system

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We’ve discovered a whole new defence system against germs in our noses

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Earth may have a pair of 'ghost moons' made of dust trapped in orbit

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The BepiColombo spacecraft is about to blast off to Mercury

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The Sun review – a shiny blockbuster for London’s Science Museum

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