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Asteroid 101955 Bennu

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First close-up look shows asteroid Bennu is a holey watery world

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission arrived at Bennu on 3 December, and its first results show that the asteroid is chock-full of water and covered in huge boulders

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Niamh Shaw: Simulating life on Mars

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Niamh Shaw: Simulating life on Mars

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Chamkaur Ghag: The hunt for dark matter

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Chamkaur Ghag: The hunt for dark matter

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Astronauts launch in Soyuz rocket for first time since botched takeoff

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Astronauts launch in Soyuz rocket for first time since botched takeoff

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Asteroid 101955 Bennu

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NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx set to start mission at asteroid Bennu

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Carlo Rovelli: The nature of time

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Carlo Rovelli: The nature of time

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An artist's impression of the surface of a newly discovered super-Earth

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Super-Earth spotted hiding in plain sight around neighbouring star

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Pulpit Rock, Norway

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Timefulness review – our impulsive and pugnacious age needs geology

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Mystery “space cow” is a weird new type of powerful space explosion

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Mystery “space cow” is a weird new type of powerful space explosion

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Enceladus

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NASA is giving advice to Yuri Milner's private mission to Enceladus

Saturn's moon Enceladus might host life, and Russian-Israeli billionaire Yuri Milner is planning the first private mission to deep space to find out more

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Emma Chapman: The first stars in the universe

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The Kepler spacecraft is dead but its planet-hunting legacy lives on

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Didier Queloz: The search for habitable exoplanets

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Stephen Fairhurst: Gravitational wave hunting

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