Space
Don’t fear apocalyptic asteroids: you’re safer than you think
A star-studded group of campaigners are promoting Asteroid Day to raise awareness of the threat of incoming rocks. Are we really facing imminent disaster?
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Grand Theft Sedna: how the sun might have stolen a mini-planet
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Supernova prized by astronomers begins to fade from view
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Sunlight could whip up water to slake lunar settlers’ thirst
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Giant telescope in Hawaii gets go-ahead, if others shut down
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Pluto’s strange family of moons are locked in a mysterious waltz
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Giant telescope in Hawaii gets go-ahead, if others shut down
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#RosettaWatch: 67P formed when two baby comets got together
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Life
Mission to Europa will test Jupiter moon’s friendliness to life
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Vesta has no moons 鈥� is it unlucky or did it eat them?
The second-heaviest asteroid in the solar system has no orbiting companions, even though hundreds of smaller asteroids do. Where did they go?
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Physics
Supernova space bullets could have seeded Earth’s iron core
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Physics
Found: Giant spirals in space that could explain our existence
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Corkscrew planets spiral back and forth between two stars
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Millions of missing galaxies found hiding in plain sight
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