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Five things we have learned about Mars from NASA's InSight mission

NASA’s InSight lander has been on the surface of Mars for over a year now – here are five of its strangest and most fascinating discoveries from the Red Planet

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Pluto's icy nitrogen heart makes its atmosphere spin backwards

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Pluto's icy nitrogen heart makes its atmosphere spin backwards

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Mercury

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Mercury’s outer layers may have been stripped off by a young Venus

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Imagined Mars settlement

Space

Should SpaceX be allowed to contaminate Mars with Earth microbes?

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dust clouds in space

Space

We finally know how whole planets grow from tiny clumps of dust

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Leigh Fletcher

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Voyage to Jupiter: What the Juno mission can teach us

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Michele Bannister

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The inside story on 'Oumuamua and other interstellar worlds

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Sheila Kanani at ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ Live

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Exploring the wonders of the solar system

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Seize your chance to spot Mercury, the solar system's smallest planet

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Seize your chance to spot Mercury, the solar system's smallest planet

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Space

See Venus and Jupiter next to each other in the sky this week

Two of the brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, are in conjunction this week, meaning they appear to line up with Earth in the sky. Here's how to spot them

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Technology

How to watch Mercury's transit of the sun with just binoculars

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Space

Surprisingly round asteroid may actually be the smallest dwarf planet

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Space

Strange volcanic domes on Venus may be made from hot crystal mush

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Space

Spot six planets in the sky this week: Mercury, Mars, Uranus and more

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