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Diamond meteorites may come from a lost ancient planet

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Diamond meteorites may come from a lost ancient planet

We may have found signs of a planet destroyed during the era of Earth’s formation. Meteorites with pockets of diamond could be the shards of this ancient world

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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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Life on toxic Venus? Acid-loving microbes could thrive in clouds

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Life on toxic Venus? Acid-loving microbes could thrive in clouds

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Jupiter's hefty twin found just 12 light years away

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Jupiter's hefty twin found just 12 light years away

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Mission Icarus: Inside the daring plan to touch the sun

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Mercury's long-lost cousin found in distant planetary system

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Mercury's long-lost cousin found in distant planetary system

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot keeps getting less great and less red

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot keeps getting less great and less red

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

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

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The sun’s mysteriously hot corona may be due to invisible plasma

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The sun’s mysteriously hot corona may be due to invisible plasma

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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

Falling space debris should make craters on rocky surfaces. But on Saturn’s moon Iapetus, it might have created a belt of mountains around the equator

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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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This record-breaking photo was taken from 6 billion km away

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Long-lost relatives: An amazing poster of the sun’s family tree

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