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Goldilocks zone (KEPLER 1649)

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Goldilocks zone

The Goldilocks zone is the habitable zone around a star in which exoplanets need to exist to make them “just right” for life.
Cosmology's new advances show our voyage of discovery is far from over

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Cosmology's new advances show our voyage of discovery is far from over

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Perseverance rover

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NASA has launched its Perseverance Mars rover and Ingenuity helicopter

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Katherine Joy: Uncovering the secrets of the moon

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Katherine Joy: Uncovering the secrets of the moon

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Black holes are hiding movies of the universe in their glowing rings

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Black holes are hiding movies of the universe in their glowing rings

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Mould from Chernobyl nuclear reactor tested as radiation shield on ISS

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Mould from Chernobyl nuclear reactor tested as radiation shield on ISS

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China is sending its first rover to Mars with the Tianwen-1 mission

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China is sending its first rover to Mars with the Tianwen-1 mission

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The four puzzles that tell us a cosmological revolution is coming

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The four puzzles that tell us a cosmological revolution is coming

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Hope spacecraft

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The United Arab Emirates is launching its first mission to Mars

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Elements from the universe’s earliest stars gave birth to our sun

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Elements from the universe’s earliest stars gave birth to our sun

It is easy to regard the sun as humdrum, yet it contains elements blasted from the universe’s first stars as they died and is halfway through its 9-billion-year lifespan

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How many planets have been discovered?

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Alien civilisations could move their star to avoid a cosmic disaster

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Is there another planet in the universe just like Earth?

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Iron meteorites

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