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Weird ice found on Neptune and Uranus has now been made on Earth

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Weird ice found on Neptune and Uranus has now been made on Earth

Bizarre ice that forms under intense pressure and high temperatures may cause Neptune’s and Uranus’s odd magnetic fields. Now, we’ve made this stuff on Earth

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Mars

Space

7 things we thought were made by aliens, but weren't... probably

Features

Deadly solar flares may have helped seed life on Mars and beyond

Space

Deadly solar flares may have helped seed life on Mars and beyond

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Falcon Heavy rocket

Space

SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket test is the start of a race to Mars

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

Space

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

Space

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

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Mars

Space

Mars rocks may have drunk up all the water and doomed life there

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Mercury probe

Space

2018 preview: Epic mission to Mercury will unravel its mysteries

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Planet X artwork

Space

Planet X: We are closing in on the solar system's new occupant

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That interstellar asteroid could be a shard of a shredded planet

Space

That interstellar asteroid could be a shard of a shredded planet

'Oumuamua, an oddly shaped asteroid from beyond our solar system, recently passed by. It may have formed when a planet was ripped into fragments by its star

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Space

Neptune’s other moons were normal until Triton crashed the party

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Space

Enceladus’s hot, gritty core may cook up ingredients for life

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Space

We now know more on the origins of weird duck-shaped comet 67P

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Space

Boiling water on Mars could make the planet's sand levitate

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