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Slingshot around Titan is the beginning of the end for Cassini

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Slingshot around Titan is the beginning of the end for Cassini

The Cassini spacecraft is passing by Titan on its final nosedive into Saturn. Plenty has been revealed about Saturn’s largest moon on Cassini’s 20-year mission

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artist's impression of planet nine

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Our sun probably didn’t steal Planet Nine from outer space

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The sun just belched out the strongest solar flare in 12 years

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The sun just belched out the strongest solar flare in 12 years

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Jupiter with one pole glowing blue

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Jupiter’s powerful aurora is surprisingly different from Earth’s

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An asteroid named after Florence Nightingale whizzed past Earth on 1 September

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Asteroid Florence buzzes Earth in closest fly-by since 1890

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Uranus

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Some of Uranus's small moons are doomed to collide

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Steampunk rover design eliminates electronics to survive Venus

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artist's concept of plumes on Europa

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One of Europa’s plumes may not exist, making hunt for life hard

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I watched the eclipse with scientists hunting the sun’s secrets

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I watched the eclipse with scientists hunting the sun’s secrets

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It could be snowing on Mars right now

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It could be snowing on Mars right now

The Red Planet may have had intense snowstorms long ago when it was wetter, but a model shows it could still have violent snowfall at night when the clouds cool

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Great American Eclipse: Everything you need to know to get ready

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Solar eclipse will reveal the roiling fog of plasma we call home

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Ice at Mars’s equator hints the planet was once much more tilted

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Tethered satellites could see the moon’s weird swirls up close

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