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Is our solar system a cosmic oddity? Evidence from exoplanets says yes

Space

Is our solar system a cosmic oddity? Evidence from exoplanets says yes

When we started finding planetary systems around other stars we thought many of them would be like ours. We’ve now found hundreds – and it’s so far, so wrong

Features

Uranium, a chemical element with a U symbol and an atomic mass equal to 238 u, has an atomic number 92

Technology

Material inspired by blood vessels can extract uranium from seawater

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The Pan-STARRS1 Telescope

Space

Astronomers have found a second trojan asteroid sharing Earth’s orbit

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Oberon

Space

The biggest moons of Uranus may have oceans beneath their icy shells

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A map centred on location of the Planet 9 candidate

Space

Enigmatic Planet Nine may have been seen by telescope in the 1980s

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An artist's depiction of the InSight lander on Mars.

Space

Marsquakes happen more often during the planet’s northern summer

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Artist's impression of `Oumuamua

Space

Earth may have grown around a rock from an alien star system

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A cliff face on Mars

Space

Ancient Mars lake had fast-moving floods that carried huge boulders

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New Horizons spacecraft

Space

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has found two odd pairs of asteroids

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Extremely detailed and realistic high resolution 3D illustration of an earth like Exoplanet. Shot from space

Space

Other planets in our solar system can masquerade as Earth from afar

If aliens took a picture of our solar system from afar, they might find that 6 of the other 7 planets in our solar system sometimes appear exactly the same as Earth in a phenomenon called planet confusion

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Space

Our cosmic neighbourhood has so many more secrets for us to reveal

Leader

Space

Life on Venus may have only been possible for its first billion years

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Humans

Fire and Ice review: A fascinating tour of weird space volcanoes

Culture

Space

The BepiColombo spacecraft is about to make its first Mercury fly-by

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