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A 300-kilometre space rock has vanished since we saw it in 1995

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A 300-kilometre space rock has vanished since we saw it in 1995

Don’t feel so bad for losing your keys. Astronomers somehow lost a huge space rock first seen 22 years ago – and it’s far from the first cosmic object to go missing

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The 5 biggest discoveries from the hunt for gravitational waves

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The 5 biggest discoveries from the hunt for gravitational waves

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Astronaut wee could show us how the plumes on Enceladus work

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A gaggle of 7 moons keep Saturn’s rings from breaking apart

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A gaggle of 7 moons keep Saturn’s rings from breaking apart

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Distant dwarf planet near Pluto has a ring that no one expected

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Distant dwarf planet near Pluto has a ring that no one expected

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A moon base

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It was always crazy to shoot for Mars before colonising the moon

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Elon Musk’s new plans for a moon base and a Mars mission by 2022

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Elon Musk’s new plans for a moon base and a Mars mission by 2022

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Rocket man: Willy Ley's fervour helped put men on the moon

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OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zooms by Earth on its way to an asteroid

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OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zooms by Earth on its way to an asteroid

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Infamous three-body problem has over a thousand new solutions

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Infamous three-body problem has over a thousand new solutions

A long-standing maths puzzle has 1223 new solutions, more than doubling the number of possible paths three objects can take as they orbit one another

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Brown dwarfs have strong magnetic fields just like real stars

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Cassini takes last look at the ring patterns made by mini moons

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Tears for Cassini: why it's OK to well up over a lump of metal

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Cassini's Grand Finale: The ups and downs of our 20-year mission

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