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The moon’s violent birth may have given Earth the ingredients of life

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The moon’s violent birth may have given Earth the ingredients of life

We think the moon formed when a Mars-sized object crashed into the young Earth. The same object could also have brought the carbon and other elements we need for life

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Moon craters reveal surprise rise in asteroid shrapnel pelting Earth

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Moon craters reveal surprise rise in asteroid shrapnel pelting Earth

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Saturn

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Saturn’s rings formed in a smash-up less than 100 million years ago

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Thousands of Elite Dangerous players embark on epic space voyage

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Thousands of Elite Dangerous players embark on epic space voyage

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Ultima Thule

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Ultima Thule is a snowman-shaped rock covered in weird ice

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Crashing tidal waves may lurk beneath the surface of icy moons

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Crashing tidal waves may lurk beneath the surface of icy moons

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Massive space rock smash-up with Uranus recreated in a riot of colour

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Massive space rock smash-up with Uranus recreated in a riot of colour

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NASA probe will hurtle past the most distant object we’ve ever visited

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NASA probe will hurtle past the most distant object we’ve ever visited

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A new dwarf planet called Farout is the most distant we’ve ever seen

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A new dwarf planet called Farout is the most distant we’ve ever seen

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Asteroid 101955 Bennu

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First close-up look shows asteroid Bennu is a holey watery world

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission arrived at Bennu on 3 December, and its first results show that the asteroid is chock-full of water and covered in huge boulders

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Interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua slipped by NASA space telescope unseen

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Earth may be made up of rocks blasted by gusts of solar wind

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We don’t need stars to navigate space - black holes work way better

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Revealed: the first ever picture of the sun's north pole

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