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Ceres surprises with water ice and colourful bright spots

Space

Ceres surprises with water ice and colourful bright spots

NASA's Dawn spacecraft zoomed in on dwarf planet Ceres and found unexpected treasures hidden in its craters

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Elliot crater

Space

Pluto: A whole new world in 5 strange photos

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Pluto may have hosted lakes and rivers of liquid nitrogen

Space

Pluto may have hosted lakes and rivers of liquid nitrogen

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New Scientist Inside A Fusion Reactor

Technology

New alloys could lead to next generation of nuke plant metals

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Pluto gives up its icy secrets as New Horizons data pours in

Earth

Pluto gives up its icy secrets as New Horizons data pours in

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Oort cloud

Space

The Oort cloud surrounds our solar system – why can't we see it?

Features

Mercury in false colour, imaged by the Messenger probe

Space

Mercury once had a graphite crust floating on a sea of magma

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Space

ExoMars probe set to sniff out signs of life on the Red Planet

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Galactic collisions doom entire star systems to black-hole death

Space

Galactic collisions doom entire star systems to black-hole death

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Exclusive photos: Clouds seen on Pluto for first time

Space

Exclusive photos: Clouds seen on Pluto for first time

We knew the dwarf planet had weather systems, but here's the first evidence from the New Horizons probe of clouds in Pluto's atmosphere

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Space

Summer on Titan may make its lakes ripple with waves

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Space

Planet Nine hunters enlist big bang telescopes and Saturn probe

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Earth

Test-driving the hydrogen car that makes a little go a long way

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Space

Space solar: The global race to tap the sun's energy from orbit

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