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Seeds of life can sprout in moon’s icy pockets
Cosmic rays can spark reactions in lunar ice that make the building blocks of life, suggesting it is happening on the solar system's other icy worlds too
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Did newborn sun have weirdly weak solar wind?
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China’s Jade Rabbit rover may be victim of moon dust
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Dwarf planet caught spitting inside asteroid belt
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Up and at ’em: Rosetta craft gaining on target comet
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Water found in stardust suggests life is universal
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Billion-dollar call: Waiting for Rosetta to phone home
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Star-aligned temples hint at Pompeii’s religious mix
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Sand dunes serve as ‘windsocks’ on distant planets
It might be possible to figure out what the weather is doing on distant planets, but only if they're covered in sand
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Sleepy sun thickens the slow solar wind
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Second tiny asteroid spotted before it hit Earth
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Anybody out there? The how and what of alien life
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We don’t need to land to find life on Europa
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