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Falling mini-moons may have created Earth’s first continents

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Falling mini-moons may have created Earth’s first continents

The early Earth was likely orbited by lots of small moons, which rained down onto the surface and could have built up ancient continents

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Probe saw plumes on Europa 20 years ago - we just didn't notice

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Probe saw plumes on Europa 20 years ago - we just didn't notice

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Young Saturn gave Jupiter the building blocks for its big moons

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Young Saturn gave Jupiter the building blocks for its big moons

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Earth had water even before the collision that made the moon

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Earth had water even before the collision that made the moon

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A mountain range on Saturn’s moon Iapetus may be a former ring

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A mountain range on Saturn’s moon Iapetus may be a former ring

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The moon may have formed in a vaporised, doughnut-shaped Earth

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The moon may have formed in a vaporised, doughnut-shaped Earth

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We may have already found signs of alien microbes on Enceladus

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We may have already found signs of alien microbes on Enceladus

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The universe may be full of ex-moons flung from their home worlds

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The universe may be full of ex-moons flung from their home worlds

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Earth was smashed by a rock the size of Mars to make the moon

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Earth was smashed by a rock the size of Mars to make the moon

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The tiny space rock New Horizons is headed for may have a moon

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The tiny space rock New Horizons is headed for may have a moon

The next destination for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is a small space rock in the Kuiper belt called MU69. Now we know it may have an even smaller moon

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Mysterious streaks seen on Saturn’s moons could be ancient rings

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Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has a hidden ‘conveyer belt’ of heat

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Possible exomoon may be an ocean-covered world as big as Saturn

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Astronaut wee could show us how the plumes on Enceladus work

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