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Titan

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Titan has a belt of ice 6300 kilometres long that shouldn't be there

The surface of Saturn’s moon Titan is mostly coated in a thick layer of sediment, but it has a long corridor of bare ice that is proving difficult to explain

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The moon

Space

There is water just under the surface of the moon that we could use

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A laser pushes a mini spacecraft's light sail in this artist's impression

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A mission to Alpha Centauri affirms humanity's faith in the future

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Prepare to jump to light speed: Inside the mission to go interstellar

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Prepare to jump to light speed: Inside the mission to go interstellar

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Dwarf planet 2007 OR10

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You can help name the largest unnamed world in the solar system

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The weird and wonderful inner moons of Saturn revealed by Cassini

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The weird and wonderful inner moons of Saturn revealed by Cassini

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The northern hemisphere is displayed in this global view of the surface of Venus.

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Venus may have had a climate suitable for life billions of years ago

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asteroids

Earth

Spacecraft reveal the mysteries of the solar system's space rocks

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Ultima Thule, a distant space rock with two lobes like a bowling pin

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Distant space rock Ultima Thule formed in a slow and gentle collision

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'Oumuamua

Space

Earth may be partly made of rocks from elsewhere in the galaxy

We’ve only seen one interstellar object, a rock called ‘Oumuamua that passed by in 2017, but they may be crucial to speeding up the planet-building process

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Jupiter could be cracking its moon Europa with powerful magnetic force

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Space exploration needs minnows as much as superpowers

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Neptune’s smallest moon keeps getting smashed up and resurrected again

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Apollo astronauts might have found a piece of Earth on the moon

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