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Cassini’s 10 best pictures from its 13-year voyage around Saturn

Space

Cassini’s 10 best pictures from its 13-year voyage around Saturn

On 15 September, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will crash into Saturn, ending its mission with a bang. 51¶¯Âþ looks back at 10 of its best images

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Europa

Space

Cassini's legacy: Where next in the search for alien life

Features

Slingshot around Titan is the beginning of the end for Cassini

Space

Slingshot around Titan is the beginning of the end for Cassini

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artist's impression of planet nine

Space

Our sun probably didn’t steal Planet Nine from outer space

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The sun just belched out the strongest solar flare in 12 years

Space

The sun just belched out the strongest solar flare in 12 years

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Jupiter with one pole glowing blue

Space

Jupiter’s powerful aurora is surprisingly different from Earth’s

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An asteroid named after Florence Nightingale whizzed past Earth on 1 September

Earth

Asteroid Florence buzzes Earth in closest fly-by since 1890

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Uranus

Space

Some of Uranus's small moons are doomed to collide

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Space

Steampunk rover design eliminates electronics to survive Venus

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artist's concept of plumes on Europa

Space

One of Europa’s plumes may not exist, making hunt for life hard

Jupiter’s icy moon is a promising place to find alien microbes, but hopes that they could be blasted into space by watery plumes may have diminished

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Technology

Thorium could power the next generation of nuclear reactors

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Space

I watched the eclipse with scientists hunting the sun’s secrets

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Space

It could be snowing on Mars right now

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Space

Great American Eclipse: Everything you need to know to get ready

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