Space
First private Mars mission aims to launch in 2018
Backed by multi-millionaire space tourist Dennis Tito, the project plans to send two people on a fly-by of the Red Planet on a 501-day round trip
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Astrophile: Icy Titan spawns tropical cyclones
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Life
Comet rain took life’s ingredients to Jupiter’s moons
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Earth
How was Earth’s life kindled under a cold sun?
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Earth and others lose status as Goldilocks worlds
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Close call coming: Averting the asteroid threat
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Physics
Dwarf planet Eris may reveal quantum gravity
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Space
Space-miners to crush asteroids and 3D print satellites
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Earth
Titan holds clue to faint young sun paradox
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2013 Smart Guide: Supercomet to outshine the moon
A gas cloud crashing into the black hole at the centre of the galaxy and a naked-eye comet promise celestial fireworks in 2013
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NASA GRAIL mission ends with twin moon smashes
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Nile-like river roves across Saturn’s moon Titan
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Orbiting eye sees NASA rover’s impact scars on Mars
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Astronomer Patrick Moore hoped to find a comet
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