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Solar eclipse

Space

Solar eclipse will reveal the roiling fog of plasma we call home

The 21 August solar eclipse gives scientists and the public alike a chance to observe the sun’s corona, a ring of plasma that stretches as far as Earth

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Image of Mars from the Hubble Space Telescope

Space

Ice at Mars’s equator hints the planet was once much more tilted

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Tethered satellites could see the moon’s weird swirls up close

Space

Tethered satellites could see the moon’s weird swirls up close

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Moon’s magnetic field lasted twice as long as we thought it did

Space

Moon’s magnetic field lasted twice as long as we thought it did

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Nuclear reactors on rockets may fuel future crewed trips to Mars

Space

Nuclear reactors on rockets may fuel future crewed trips to Mars

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Giant loner asteroids suggest baby planets formed quickly

Space

Giant loner asteroids suggest baby planets formed quickly

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Refuelling hydrogen vehicle

Technology

Nano aluminium offers fuel cells on demand – just add water

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Space

Finding the first pulsar set my world spinning

Features

First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away

Space

First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away

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Robot spots signs of melted fuel at submerged Fukushima reactor

Earth

Robot spots signs of melted fuel at submerged Fukushima reactor

An underwater robot captured images believed to be the first signs of melted nuclear reactor fuel that sank after the plant’s 2011 failure

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Earth

Earth's underwater dunes help explain Venus's weird surface

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Space

Asteroids may have been giant mudballs in the early solar system

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Space

Titan's conditions could be just right to power US-sized colony

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Earth

Why Morocco loves its meteorites

Culture

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