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Asteroid 101955 Bennu

Space

NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx set to start mission at asteroid Bennu

The OSIRIS-REx mission is set to arrive at its destination, the asteroid Bennu, which gets dangerously close to Earth and may tell us about the early solar system

News

A mysterious picture of a moon behind the moon

Space

Earth may have a pair of 'ghost moons' made of dust trapped in orbit

News

A picture of BepiColombo in front of Mercury

Space

The BepiColombo spacecraft is about to blast off to Mercury

News

The Sun review – a shiny blockbuster for London’s Science Museum

Space

The Sun review – a shiny blockbuster for London’s Science Museum

Culture

Iapetus

Space

Moons can have moons and they are called moonmoons

News

Distant dwarf planet called 'The Goblin' could point to Planet X

Space

Distant dwarf planet called 'The Goblin' could point to Planet X

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Don't miss pic

Space

Don't miss: Darwinian premiere, what's really real and sun science

Culture

10 mysteries of the universe: Is our solar system normal?

Space

10 mysteries of the universe: Is our solar system normal?

Features

An artist's impression of Psyche

Earth

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

Features

Rock layers show our sun has been in same cycle for 700 million years

Environment

Rock layers show our sun has been in same cycle for 700 million years

Our star gets more and less active in a repeating cycle that lasts 11 years, and ancient rocks suggest it behaved the same way over 700 million years ago

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Space

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is on its way to the sun, via Venus

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Space

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

Features

Space

The sun shrinks and grows again by 2 kilometres every 11 years

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Space

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

Features