Space
Public vote renames planets after gods, monsters and scientists
The International Astronomical Union has announced the results of a contest to name far-off planets, and Copernicus, Veritate and Sancho are among the winners
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Stargazing through the bottom of a glass
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Life
Two missions face off to seek life in icy seas of Enceladus
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Needle formation lets space rubble sneak up on us
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Space
Prodigal gas cloud was born in Milky Way and is crashing back in
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Space
Little galaxy’s own stars cast 95 per cent of its oxygen away
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Japanese Akatsuki probe enters Venus orbit after inspired hack
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New Horizons releases first images of Pluto in sharpest focus
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Life
Pairs of habitable worlds could throw microbes at each other
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A threesome may explain behaviour of galaxy’s most bizarre star
The odd behaviour of the Eta Carinae star system has puzzled astronomers since the 1800s, but now we might finally have an explanation
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Physics
Weirdly tilted planet knocks formation theory out of line
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Space
Thieving Milky Way stole distant star cluster from neighbour
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Baby photos of distant planet are first to capture formation
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Our moon would be a planet under new definition of planethood
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