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An artist's impression of Psyche

Earth

NASA’s deep-space mission to a $10 quintillion all-metal world

The unique metal asteroid Psyche may be a space miner's fantasy – but there are better reasons to want to visit it, says mission leader Lindy Elkins-Tanton

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Uranus

Space

Forgotten giants: Why the time is ripe to revisit Uranus and Neptune

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planet

Space

Why weird star systems are where we'll find alien life

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The surface of Mars

Space

Mars could have been habitable 100 million years before Earth

News

Lightning reveals where Jupiter stores its ‘missing’ water

Space

Lightning reveals where Jupiter stores its ‘missing’ water

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Ripples in Saturn’s rings unravel mystery of how fast it spins

Space

Ripples in Saturn’s rings unravel mystery of how fast it spins

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Methane ice and winds on Pluto make strange 'sand' dunes

Space

Methane ice and winds on Pluto make strange 'sand' dunes

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Pluto is not a planet – it's a billion comets squished together

Space

Pluto is not a planet – it's a billion comets squished together

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Frankenstein planets may form from the wreckage of dead worlds

Space

Frankenstein planets may form from the wreckage of dead worlds

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ESA eyes Venus mission or space telescope to launch by 2030

Space

ESA eyes Venus mission or space telescope to launch by 2030

The European Space Agency has three finalists for a mission to launch by 2030: a Venus probe and two space telescopes to view ancient gamma rays and young stars

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Space

Jupiter's hefty twin found just 12 light years away

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Space

Gooey nitrogen ice may make Pluto’s crater-free heart look young

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Space

Dwarf planet Ceres has a water cycle but it’s not like Earth’s

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Space

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

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