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Don't send bugs to Mars

Life

Don't send bugs to Mars

A plan to send live microbes to the Red Planet's largest moon risks wrecking our search for extraterrestrial life, argues Barry E. DiGregorio

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Giant ice volcano may have been found on Titan

Space

Giant ice volcano may have been found on Titan

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Geminid meteors set to dazzle

Space

Geminid meteors set to dazzle

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Space

Probe fails to orbit Venus and flies into space

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Saturn's strange propellers show how planets are born

Space

Saturn's strange propellers show how planets are born

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Space

Space debris may cause mysterious ball lightning

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Experiment casts doubt on origins of lunar water

Space

Experiment casts doubt on origins of lunar water

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Hardy bugs could survive a million years on Mars

Life

Hardy bugs could survive a million years on Mars

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Comet caught throwing basketball-sized snowballs

Space

Comet caught throwing basketball-sized snowballs

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Former 'tenth planet' may be smaller than Pluto

Space

Former 'tenth planet' may be smaller than Pluto

Eris, a distant body that triggered the debate about what constitutes a planet, may actually be smaller than Pluto, according to new observations

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Space

LCROSS mission may have struck silver on the moon

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Earth

Cosmic accidents: Blasting the Earth into life

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Space

Cosmic accidents: Mars attacks

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Space

Solved: mystery of the meteor-shedding asteroid

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