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Asteroids around a star

Space

‘Alien megastructure’ signal may be due to star eating a planet

Tabby’s star’s odd blinking and fading has been put down to alien signals and swarms of comets, but devouring a planet could explain everything

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Environment

The 12 biggest and best science stories of 2016

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Space

Project Blue plans to send space telescope to snap nearby worlds

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Hypothetical view of an exoplanet with two suns

Space

Giant hidden Jupiters may explain lonely planet systems

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Saturn

Space

Saturn’s rings may be from the whirl of a passing icy rock

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Mystery object in weird orbit beyond Neptune cannot be explained

Space

Mystery object in weird orbit beyond Neptune cannot be explained

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Life

Ocean worlds: Searching for life in the solar system's seas

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A red landscape on the surface of Venus

Space

Venus could have been habitable while life evolved on Earth

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V883 Orionis's protoplanetary disc

Space

Baby star illuminates icy wall between rocky planets and giants

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Mercury

Space

Homebrew meteorites reveal origins of Mercury’s weird crust

Mixing up a fake powdered version of rare meteorites in the lab has shown how a freak surface feature arose from deep within the planet

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Space

Pluto must have liquid ocean or it'd look like an overripe peach

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Space

Asteroids keep their rings safe from gas giants’ clutches

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Space

How the sun abducted dwarf planets from an alien solar system

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Space

Flamingo stars turn pink when they gobble iron-rich planets

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