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Epic Mars flooding triggered by collapsed crater lake

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Epic Mars flooding triggered by collapsed crater lake

Lakes that gushed up through collapsed sediment can explain bumpy landscapes on Mars and perhaps sheltered microbes that may now lie dormant in ice

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Sun 'smoke rings' give clue to solar wind mystery

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Sun 'smoke rings' give clue to solar wind mystery

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The LADEE killers: NASA has crashed probe into moon

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The LADEE killers: NASA has crashed probe into moon

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NASA 'flying saucer' for Mars to land in Hawaii

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NASA 'flying saucer' for Mars to land in Hawaii

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Squirting moons face off in race to find alien life

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Squirting moons face off in race to find alien life

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Volcanic blasts hint that Mercury is a migrant planet

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Volcanic blasts hint that Mercury is a migrant planet

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Buried 'Lake Superior' seen on Saturn's moon Enceladus

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Buried 'Lake Superior' seen on Saturn's moon Enceladus

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Gaggle of dwarf planets found by dark energy camera

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Sun traces giant figures-of-eight in the sky

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Sun traces giant figures-of-eight in the sky

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Where am I? Voyager on the solar system's frontier

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Where am I? Voyager on the solar system's frontier

NASA says our furthest emissary has at last broken though into interstellar space – but Voyager's dispatches reveal that nothing is simple at the outer limits

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Robotic planet-hunter bags its first exoplanets

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Asteroid surprises with set of shiny Saturn-like rings

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New dwarf planet hints at giant world far beyond Pluto

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Moon impacts eject debris at shotgun speeds

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