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The Pan-STARRS1 Telescope

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Astronomers have found a second trojan asteroid sharing Earth’s orbit

An Earth trojan is an asteroid that shares our planet’s orbit around the sun, moving just ahead of or behind our planet – and astronomers have now discovered that we have two

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Oberon

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The biggest moons of Uranus may have oceans beneath their icy shells

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A map centred on location of the Planet 9 candidate

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Enigmatic Planet Nine may have been seen by telescope in the 1980s

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An artist's depiction of the InSight lander on Mars.

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Marsquakes happen more often during the planet’s northern summer

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Artist's impression of `Oumuamua

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Earth may have grown around a rock from an alien star system

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A cliff face on Mars

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Ancient Mars lake had fast-moving floods that carried huge boulders

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New Horizons spacecraft

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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has found two odd pairs of asteroids

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Extremely detailed and realistic high resolution 3D illustration of an earth like Exoplanet. Shot from space

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Other planets in our solar system can masquerade as Earth from afar

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D1P5RK Solar system, artwork

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Our cosmic neighbourhood has so many more secrets for us to reveal

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A composite view of Venus from data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter

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Life on Venus may have only been possible for its first billion years

Previous research suggested Venus may have been habitable for 2 to 3 billion years, but that didn’t take into account the lack of plate tectonics, which affects CO2 levels and narrows the window for life on Venus

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Humans

Fire and Ice review: A fascinating tour of weird space volcanoes

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The BepiColombo spacecraft is about to make its first Mercury fly-by

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Mushballs inside Uranus and Neptune may solve an atmospheric mystery

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Astronomers have just found more than half a million new asteroids

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