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NASA鈥檚 deep-space mission to a $10 quintillion all-metal world
The unique metal asteroid Psyche may be a space miner's fantasy 鈥� but there are better reasons to want to visit it, says mission leader Lindy Elkins-Tanton
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Environment
Rock layers show our sun has been in same cycle for 700 million years
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Space
NASA鈥檚 Parker Solar Probe is on its way to the sun, via Venus
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Space
Forgotten giants: Why the time is ripe to revisit Uranus and Neptune
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Physics
The sun shrinks and grows again by 2 kilometres every 11 years
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Space
Why weird star systems are where we’ll find alien life
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Space
Passing star may have disturbed the solar system billions of years ago
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Space
We鈥檝e found 12 new moons orbiting Jupiter 鈥� and one is probably doomed
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Space
Tornadoes on the sun could blast hot plasma towards Earth
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Space
Interstellar visitor 鈥極umuamua may be a comet, not an asteroid
The path of the 鈥渋nterstellar asteroid鈥� discovered last year can鈥檛 be explained by gravity alone - it was also pushed along by gas, so it might actually be a comet
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Space
The New Horizons probe is awake and ready for its next flyby
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Environment
A day used to be less than 19 hours long 1.4 billion years ago
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Space
Pluto is not a planet 鈥� it’s a billion comets squished together
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Space
Why Saturn’s inner moons look like ravioli, cigars and potatoes
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