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Neptune’s smallest moon keeps getting smashed up and resurrected again

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Neptune’s smallest moon keeps getting smashed up and resurrected again

A tiny moon of Neptune called Hippocamp, first spotted in 2013, has probably been smashed up and reassembled around nine times in the last 4 billion years

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B cells produce antibodies that protect us from invading pathogens

Health

CRISPR could help us protect ourselves from viruses like flu and HIV

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Apollo astronauts might have found a piece of Earth on the moon

Space

Apollo astronauts might have found a piece of Earth on the moon

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The moon’s violent birth may have given Earth the ingredients of life

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The moon’s violent birth may have given Earth the ingredients of life

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Moon craters reveal surprise rise in asteroid shrapnel pelting Earth

Space

Moon craters reveal surprise rise in asteroid shrapnel pelting Earth

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Saturn

Space

Saturn’s rings formed in a smash-up less than 100 million years ago

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Thousands of Elite Dangerous players embark on epic space voyage

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Thousands of Elite Dangerous players embark on epic space voyage

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Ultima Thule

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Ultima Thule is a snowman-shaped rock covered in weird ice

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Crashing tidal waves may lurk beneath the surface of icy moons

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Crashing tidal waves may lurk beneath the surface of icy moons

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Massive space rock smash-up with Uranus recreated in a riot of colour

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Massive space rock smash-up with Uranus recreated in a riot of colour

Uranus was probably tilted on its side by a giant impact when it was young, and a detailed new simulation of this process is a riot of swirling colours

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NASA probe will hurtle past the most distant object we’ve ever visited

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A new dwarf planet called Farout is the most distant we’ve ever seen

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First close-up look shows asteroid Bennu is a holey watery world

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Interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua slipped by NASA space telescope unseen

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