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solar power

Snow-proof solar panels keep working even in icy weather

Technology

Snow-proof solar panels keep working even in icy weather

Snow and ice block sunlight from reaching solar panels and stop energy generation, but a new material can cause them to slide off

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Is our solar system a cosmic oddity? Evidence from exoplanets says yes

Space

Is our solar system a cosmic oddity? Evidence from exoplanets says yes

Features

Uranium, a chemical element with a U symbol and an atomic mass equal to 238 u, has an atomic number 92

Technology

Material inspired by blood vessels can extract uranium from seawater

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The Pan-STARRS1 Telescope

Space

Astronomers have found a second trojan asteroid sharing Earth’s orbit

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Oberon

Space

The biggest moons of Uranus may have oceans beneath their icy shells

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A map centred on location of the Planet 9 candidate

Space

Enigmatic Planet Nine may have been seen by telescope in the 1980s

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An artist's depiction of the InSight lander on Mars.

Space

Marsquakes happen more often during the planet’s northern summer

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Artist's impression of `Oumuamua

Space

Earth may have grown around a rock from an alien star system

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A cliff face on Mars

Space

Ancient Mars lake had fast-moving floods that carried huge boulders

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New Horizons spacecraft

Space

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has found two odd pairs of asteroids

The New Horizons spacecraft has found two pairs of unusually close asteroids in a region of the solar system called the Kuiper belt

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Space

Other planets in our solar system can masquerade as Earth from afar

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Space

Our cosmic neighbourhood has so many more secrets for us to reveal

Leader

Space

Life on Venus may have only been possible for its first billion years

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Humans

Fire and Ice review: A fascinating tour of weird space volcanoes

Culture

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