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A detailed view of Pluto's surface taken by NASA's New Horizons craft

Space

Pluto must have liquid ocean or it'd look like an overripe peach

If Pluto’s inner sea froze recently, we should see ridges popping up in the dwarf planet's outer shell. Since we don’t, it's probably still liquid

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Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Space

I smelled comet 67P's deadly pong and lived to tell the tale

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Asteroids keep their rings safe from gas giants’ clutches

Space

Asteroids keep their rings safe from gas giants’ clutches

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The alien world that's being vaporised by a death ray

Space

The alien world that's being vaporised by a death ray

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Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

Life

Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

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Ocean worlds could host life under layers of high-pressure ice

Life

Ocean worlds could host life under layers of high-pressure ice

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Massive exoplanet’s close dance is making its star spin faster

Space

Massive exoplanet’s close dance is making its star spin faster

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aliens

Space

How the sun abducted dwarf planets from an alien solar system

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solar system

Space

Your explosive guide to the end of the universe

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Perseid meteor shower

Space

Rare cosmic balancing act makes Perseid meteor showers brighter

The gravitational pulls of Saturn and Jupiter may make meteor showers more spectacular, and could explain 1993's "night of the howling dogs"

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Space

Bloated baby black holes spotted in the distant universe

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Earth

Cranky young sun could have kickstarted life on Earth

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Space

Incoming asteroids could crumble harmlessly before they hit us

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Life

Pinball planets: How life could start in a violent solar system

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