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solar power

meteorite artwork

Earth

Rocks of ages: How meteorites reveal the solar system's history

Clever ways to find more space debris, and pinpoint where it came from, will help us rewrite what we know about the solar system's turbulent youth

Features

A large piece of the Chelyabinsk meteorite extracted from a lake with ropes

Space

Earth’s greatest hits: Six of the biggest meteorites in history

Features

Saturn's moon Atlas, which is shaped like a ravioli

Space

Saturn's flying saucer moon Atlas has a smooth fluffy edge

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MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars

Space

Mars's atmosphere hosts metal layers that shouldn't exist

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radioactive waste drums

Physics

Waste-munching bacteria could make nuclear stores safer

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The Stellar Echo Imaging of Exoplanets Concept

Space

NASA funds radical Pluto hopper and cosmic echolocation concepts

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Trump plans to revive nuclear waste plans axed by Obama in 2010

Physics

Trump plans to revive nuclear waste plans axed by Obama in 2010

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Mars

Space

Mars is so small because Jupiter shook up its formation

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MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars

Space

NASA orbiter shows Mars lost 90 per cent of its CO2 to space

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Backwards asteroid shares an orbit with Jupiter without crashing

Space

Backwards asteroid shares an orbit with Jupiter without crashing

A rare retrograde asteroid has been spotted in Jupiter's orbital zone - and nudges from the giant planet may have kept it stable there for a million years

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Space

Electrified sand could explain Titan’s odd backward-facing dunes

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Health

A nuclear ghost town in Japan welcomes back residents this week

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Space

Enigmatic plumes from Saturn’s moon caused by cosmic collision

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Space

Gentle breeze may help Venus's atmosphere spin like crazy

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