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New Horizons spacecraft

Space

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has found two odd pairs of asteroids

The New Horizons spacecraft has found two pairs of unusually close asteroids in a region of the solar system called the Kuiper belt

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Extremely detailed and realistic high resolution 3D illustration of an earth like Exoplanet. Shot from space

Space

Other planets in our solar system can masquerade as Earth from afar

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D1P5RK Solar system, artwork

Space

Our cosmic neighbourhood has so many more secrets for us to reveal

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A composite view of Venus from data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter

Space

Life on Venus may have only been possible for its first billion years

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Fire and Ice review: A fascinating tour of weird space volcanoes

Humans

Fire and Ice review: A fascinating tour of weird space volcanoes

Culture

Artist?s impression of the BepiColombo spacecraft at Mercury. The mission comprises ESA?s Mercury Planetary Orbiter (foreground) and JAXA?s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (background). The image of Mercury was taken by NASA?s Messenger spacecraft.

Space

The BepiColombo spacecraft is about to make its first Mercury fly-by

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View of planet Uranus from spac

Space

Mushballs inside Uranus and Neptune may solve an atmospheric mystery

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2A7HPG2 asteroid belt, debris in the solar system

Space

Astronomers have just found more than half a million new asteroids

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Solar panels in space

Space

Solar panels in space could help power the UK by 2039, claims report

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Strange gas in Venus’s clouds may be a sign of volcanoes, not life

Space

Strange gas in Venus’s clouds may be a sign of volcanoes, not life

Phosphine gas in the atmosphere of Venus was considered a possible sign of life, but it could come from volcanic eruptions sending enormous plumes of lava into the air

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Life

Male seahorses can get pregnant because they lack key immunity genes

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Space

Solar sail spacecraft could be used to intercept interstellar objects

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Space

The European Space Agency is sending another spacecraft to Venus

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Space

Europa’s icy shell may have pockets of water that could support life

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