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Ageing solar probe to be taken off life support

Space

Ageing solar probe to be taken off life support

Ground controllers have been nursing the 18-year-old Ulysses spacecraft for about a year; on Tuesday, they will let it fade into oblivion

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Solar X-rays may create DNA building blocks on Titan

Life

Solar X-rays may create DNA building blocks on Titan

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Space shuttle exhaust hints comet caused Tunguska blast

Space

Space shuttle exhaust hints comet caused Tunguska blast

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Sun leaves Earth wide open to cosmic rays

Earth

Sun leaves Earth wide open to cosmic rays

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Mars may hide secret water table

Space

Mars may hide secret water table

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Solar ghosts may haunt Earth's radioactive atoms

Space

Solar ghosts may haunt Earth's radioactive atoms

Features

Eclipse darkens 'Death Star' moon

Space

Eclipse darkens 'Death Star' moon

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Solar sleuths tackle mystery of quiet sun

Space

Solar sleuths tackle mystery of quiet sun

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Lunar probe launches on collision course with moon

Space

Lunar probe launches on collision course with moon

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Solar system's most volcanic body to go dormant

Space

Solar system's most volcanic body to go dormant

Jupiter's hyper-volcanic moon Io has just received a death sentence – a new study suggests it will one day go dormant

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Space

Moon rocks and how to spot them

Features

Space

Huge stellar nursery found in dusty corner of our galaxy

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Space

Apollo meets astrology: Buzz Aldrin and Gustav Holst

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Space

Lunar astronauts get neighbourhood watch

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