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We may have just seen the first comet from another solar system

Space

We may have just seen the first comet from another solar system

An icy comet just hurtled past the sun on a strange path that suggests it came from outside our solar system, making it the first such interloper we've ever spotted

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Dawn

Space

Dawn spacecraft approved to spend another year studying Ceres

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

Space

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

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The 5 biggest discoveries from the hunt for gravitational waves

Space

The 5 biggest discoveries from the hunt for gravitational waves

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Space

Astronaut wee could show us how the plumes on Enceladus work

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A gaggle of 7 moons keep Saturn鈥檚 rings from breaking apart

Space

A gaggle of 7 moons keep Saturn鈥檚 rings from breaking apart

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

Space

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

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A moon base

Space

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

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

Space

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

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Ley

Space

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

A biography of the 鈥減rophet of the space age鈥 shows what rocketry owes to Willy Ley鈥檚 preaching through TV, radio and printed media, and even via toy firms

Culture

Space

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

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Space

Infamous three-body problem has over a thousand new solutions

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Space

Brown dwarfs have strong magnetic fields just like real stars

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Space

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

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