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Saturn's rings as seen from space

Space

Cassini gears up for final fiery plunge into Saturn's atmosphere

After more than a decade orbiting Saturn, Cassini is almost out of fuel. The craft's final daring mission looms – a fatal dive into the gas giant's atmosphere

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Earth

How two tiny dots defy the history of life and the solar system

Features

The HAWC observatory near the Sierra Nevada volcano in Mexico

Space

Water telescope’s first sky map shows flickering black holes

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Cassini circling Saturn

Space

Saturn probe Cassini hoovers up dust from distant stars

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Front page of The Sun newspaper, headlined 'World's end'

Space

Ease up doom mongers, Planet Nine is not about to destroy us

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Brown pockmarked and streaked surface of Phobos

Space

Mars moons may have formed after collision with Pluto-like world

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The play <i>X</i> will have you clock-watching - but in a good way

Space

The play X will have you clock-watching - but in a good way

CultureLab

The Pleiades star cluster: it might have been the sun's nursery

Space

Planet Nine might be an exoplanet stolen by the sun

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Pluto showing heart-shaped

Space

Pluto may have tipped over when Charon tugged at its heart

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Long-term view of extreme cosmic burst challenges astronomers

Space

Long-term view of extreme cosmic burst challenges astronomers

Several years of observations from the afterglow of one of the most powerful explosions in the universe could upend the standard view of how these bursts work

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Space

More evidence for Planet Nine as odd celestial alignment emerges

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Space

Bubbling ocean on Saturn’s moon could explain vanishing island

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Space

Moon’s lack of water down to ancient shift in its spin axis

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Earth

Should the UK pull plug on Hinkley Point nuclear power station?

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