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Earth

Rocks of ages: How meteorites reveal the solar system’s history

Clever ways to find more space debris, and pinpoint where it came from, will help us rewrite what we know about the solar system's turbulent youth

Saturn's moon Atlas, which is shaped like a ravioli

Space

Saturn’s flying saucer moon Atlas has a smooth fluffy edge

MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars

Space

Mars’s atmosphere hosts metal layers that shouldn’t exist

The Stellar Echo Imaging of Exoplanets Concept

Space

NASA funds radical Pluto hopper and cosmic echolocation concepts

Mars

Physics

Mars is so small because Jupiter shook up its formation

MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars

Environment

NASA orbiter shows Mars lost 90 per cent of its CO2 to space

Space

Backwards asteroid shares an orbit with Jupiter without crashing

Titan's dunes seem to face the wrong way

Physics

Electrified sand could explain Titan鈥檚 odd backward-facing dunes

Illustration of the plumes at Enceladus's south pole

Space

Enigmatic plumes from Saturn鈥檚 moon caused by cosmic collision

Venus with stripy features in atmosphere

Environment

Gentle breeze may help Venus’s atmosphere spin like crazy

The atmosphere of Venus rotates much faster than the planet itself. A newly detected wind could be spreading the energy needed to power it

Space

NASA’s new budget is big on other worlds but ignores our own

Space

Discovery of tiny moon completes the set for worlds past Neptune

Space

Musk’s moon trip ‘tourists’ should be praised as pioneers

Space

Cosmic popcorn effect helps space dust survive our atmosphere