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Space

Cosmic carve-up: Law and plunder on the final frontier

The US wants to press ahead with asteroid mining, but rights to the riches buried in space are a grey area. How should we draw up rules for harvesting the heavens?

Features

NASA approves new far-flung destination for Pluto space probe

Space

NASA approves new far-flung destination for Pluto space probe

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Looking back at Viking, the first mission to Mars

Space

Looking back at Viking, the first mission to Mars

Culture

Mercury

Space

Homebrew meteorites reveal origins of Mercury’s weird crust

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Rip up the rule book and let NASA's Mars rover check 'life' zone

Life

Rip up the rule book and let NASA's Mars rover check 'life' zone

Comment

Hubble spots a new long-lived storm raging on Neptune

Space

Hubble spots a new long-lived storm raging on Neptune

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A detailed view of Pluto's surface taken by NASA's New Horizons craft

Space

Pluto must have liquid ocean or it'd look like an overripe peach

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Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Space

I smelled comet 67P's deadly pong and lived to tell the tale

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Asteroids keep their rings safe from gas giants’ clutches

Space

Asteroids keep their rings safe from gas giants’ clutches

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The alien world that's being vaporised by a death ray

Space

The alien world that's being vaporised by a death ray

A Mercury-sized exoplanet is being blown apart like a dandelion – and magnetic hotspots on its star could make things worse

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Life

Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

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Life

Ocean worlds could host life under layers of high-pressure ice

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Health

'People said I was mad': Why I chose extreme treatment for my MS

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Space

Massive exoplanet’s close dance is making its star spin faster

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