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What Cassini saw...

Space

Cassini's Grand Finale: The spacecraft that unveiled Saturn

From magical rings to loony moons to giant polar hurricanes, in 13 years orbiting Saturn the Cassini probe has exposed many wonders. Here's our pick

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<i>The Farthest</i>: How the Voyager story keeps on giving

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The Farthest: How the Voyager story keeps on giving

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Cassini’s 10 best pictures from its 13-year voyage around Saturn

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Cassini’s 10 best pictures from its 13-year voyage around Saturn

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Europa

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Cassini's legacy: Where next in the search for alien life

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Slingshot around Titan is the beginning of the end for Cassini

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Slingshot around Titan is the beginning of the end for Cassini

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Low-oxygen dwarf galaxy shows us how the early universe looked

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Low-oxygen dwarf galaxy shows us how the early universe looked

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Win the chance to speak to an astronaut on the ISS

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Win the chance to speak to an astronaut on the ISS

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Earth

Stripy ponds in the Utah desert help green the bone-dry land

Regulars

The sun just belched out the strongest solar flare in 12 years

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The sun just belched out the strongest solar flare in 12 years

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Some TRAPPIST-1 planets may have the right conditions for water

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Some TRAPPIST-1 planets may have the right conditions for water

Water on the planets nearest the TRAPPIST-1 star would be destroyed by UV radiation but it could survive on the cooler worlds in the habitable zone

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Steampunk rover design eliminates electronics to survive Venus

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Weird ancient burst of light in the sky turns out to be a nova

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We’ve just seen 15 new mysterious cosmic radio bursts from space

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Wonky signals from distant stars could be sign of exocomets

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