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Cosmic accidents: Blasting the Earth into life
The solar system's "late heavy bombardment" blasted our planet 鈥� but might also have delivered our water, and created nurseries for life
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Mars moon may have formed like our own
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Crater map rekindles debate over moon impacts
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Physics
Did Jupiter and Saturn play pinball with Uranus?
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Found: natural bridges on the moon
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Physics
Weird water lurking inside giant planets
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Earth
Second super-fast flip of Earth’s poles found
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Trojan asteroids make planetary scientist lose sleep
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Earth
Sunspots squeeze and stretch the day
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Jupiter attacked for third time in 13 months
Amateur astronomers bear witness to yet another impact on the giant planet, suggesting such run-ins are fairly common
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Solar system slips back in time
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Shrinking moon may explain lunar quakes
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Life
Hayabusa 2 will seek the origins of life in space
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Neptune ‘dead zones’ hold more rocks than asteroid belt
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