Earth
Dual asteroid strike hints at chaos in the inner solar system
A pair of unrelated asteroids. That's not supposed to happen. What on earth skewed their orbits, and plunged us into ice age?
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Space
NASA plans first interplanetary CubeSat mission for Mars lander
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Physics
Philae awakes: What next for probe after 7 month nap on comet?
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Space
#RosettaWatch: Search party may have found missing lander Philae
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Space
How New Horizons will probe mysteries of Pluto’s oddball moons
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Space
First visit to Pluto could rewrite the solar system’s story
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Space
Dwarf or planet? First visit to Pluto could reignite the row
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Space
Our exploration of the solar system is just getting started
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Space
Sunlight could whip up water to slake lunar settlers’ thirst
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Space
Pluto’s strange family of moons are locked in a mysterious waltz
Three of Pluto's four small moons are moving in step, and the fourth looks darker than the rest 鈥� creating a puzzle as to how they formed
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Physics
Giant telescope in Hawaii gets go-ahead, if others shut down
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Space
#RosettaWatch: 67P formed when two baby comets got together
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Life
Mission to Europa will test Jupiter moon’s friendliness to life
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Space
Vesta has no moons 鈥� is it unlucky or did it eat them?
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