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Two Astronauts wearing Space Suits Standing on Alien Planet and Looking at Something. Futuristic Space Exploration, Discovery and Colonization.

Humans

The Moonday Letters review: Genre-busting sci-fi extols hope as a duty

In Emmi Itäranta's The Moonday Letters, humans have adapted to live off-world. But central to this genre-crashing thrill ride is a reminder that hope is essential

Culture

Planet Neptune in the Starry Sky of Solar System in Space with image elements furnished by NASA.

Space

A passing star shifting Neptune’s orbit could wreck the solar system

News

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Space

Moon rocks collected by the Chang’e 5 mission have water in them

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Space

Why the next big solar storm might hit Earth without warning

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Space

Pairs of giant planets may make their star systems ultra-habitable

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This high resolution image of the icy crust of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, reveals a surface criss-crossed by multiple sets of ridges and fractures

Space

We now know how the mysterious ridges covering Europa’s surface formed

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Magnetosphere

Physics

Earth’s magnetosphere replicated in miniature using lasers and magnets

News

Main ? Voyager 2 view of Neptune, captured in August 1989. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

Space

Neptune has been slowly cooling for 15 years when it should be warming

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Space

Mars may have been habitable millions of years later than we thought

News

Uranus and Neptune

Space

We may now know why Uranus and Neptune are different shades of blue

Uranus is pale blue in colour while Neptune is a deeper shade of blue, and an atmospheric model can explain the difference

News

Space

Leigh Fletcher interview: Why we urgently need a mission to Neptune

Features

Space

Sample of asteroid Ryugu brought to Earth is a strange dark colour

News

Space

Super-fast impacts may have made Venus an uninhabitable hellhole

News

Space

Is our solar system a cosmic oddity? Evidence from exoplanets says yes

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