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Why Mars has captured our hopes and fears for millennia

Space

Why Mars has captured our hopes and fears for millennia

From being the celestial embodiment of warrior gods to housing canal-digging aliens, Mars has uniquely endured in the public consciousness. Even today, the Red Planet still spells adventure, says Stuart Clark

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Observing the crescent Moon by binoculars.

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Watch a lunar occultation of Uranus

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Blasting plastic with powerful lasers turns it into tiny diamonds

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Our neighbouring planets can help us understand Earth's climate change

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Our neighbouring planets can help us understand Earth's climate change

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Illustration of the exoplanet LHS 3844 b

Space

JWST could soon tell us what exoplanets' surfaces are made of

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Planet Neptune in the Starry Sky of Solar System in Space with image elements furnished by NASA.

Space

A passing star shifting Neptune’s orbit could wreck the solar system

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FEATURE - Clouds of Hydrogen Gas ? Simon Tang Clouds of hydrogen gas give way as the magnetic field lines of the sun snap and clash together. This display of nature creates astonishing features, known as prominences, on the limb of the Sun. Taken with QHYCCD QHY5III-174M camera, 5040mm f/33.6, 1000 x 12-millisecond frame exposures Location: Los Angeles, California, United States

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Stunning solar prominences shine in photography competition

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An image of Mars

Space

Ancient meteorite upends our ideas of how Mars formed

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HRJM18 Exoplanet OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb

Space

One in every 50 planets may have been stolen from other stars

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Enceladus

Space

NASA should explore Uranus and Enceladus, say planetary scientists

A major report on priorities for the next decade of US planetary science calls for the first dedicated Uranus probe and an orbiter-lander combo for Saturn’s ocean moon Enceladus

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Space

Neptune has been slowly cooling for 15 years when it should be warming

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Space

A planet-spotting extravaganza is coming, if you are an early riser

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Space

Mars 'lake' may actually be volcanic rocks buried beneath the ice cap

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Space

At least 70 'rogue' planets spotted drifting in space without a star

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