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

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

Expect more of the modern phenomenon of mass mourning for a machine when the space probe Cassini makes its death dive into Saturn, says Joelle Renstrom

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

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What Cassini saw...

Space

Cassini's Grand Finale: The spacecraft that unveiled Saturn

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

Space

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

Space

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

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

Multicoloured patchwork ponds in this desert play a key part in tapping sources of potassium chloride, a vital fertiliser

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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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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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