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Strange lightning on Jupiter may be caused by ammonia snowballs

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Strange lightning on Jupiter may be caused by ammonia snowballs

The Juno spacecraft has spotted lightning on Jupiter that’s unlike anything we’ve seen before, and it may be caused by strange, slushy balls of ammonia and ice

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Devon island

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Ancient valleys on Mars may have been carved by glaciers

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Sectioned fragment from an iron meteorite that caused the Odessa crater in Texas, US, about 50,000 years ago

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Martian surface

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Electric dust could be erasing signs of life from the surface of Mars

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Some hot giant planets get larger as they are heated by their stars

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Some hot giant planets get larger as they are heated by their stars

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Mud volcano

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Mars may be covered in mud volcanoes disguised as lava flows

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Surface of Mercury

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A large chunk of Mercury may have been blown away by the sun

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Planet Nine

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Mysterious ‘Planet Nine’ on the solar system’s edge may not be real

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A giant raft of rock may once have floated across Mars’s ancient ocean

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A giant raft of rock may once have floated across Mars’s ancient ocean

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Vast worlds called brown dwarfs have extraordinarily powerful winds

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Vast worlds called brown dwarfs have extraordinarily powerful winds

Brown dwarfs, which are halfway between huge planets and small stars, have extremely powerful winds whipping around them at speeds of about 650 metres per second

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Venus may have an underground magma ocean spanning the whole planet

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Pluto formed quickly with a deep ocean covering its entire surface

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Strange lines on Venus may be folded stacks of lava eroded by wind

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Five things we have learned about Mars from NASA's InSight mission

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