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Giant loner asteroids suggest baby planets formed quickly

Space

Giant loner asteroids suggest baby planets formed quickly

The oldest intact asteroids hint that planets didn’t grow by slowly gathering small space rocks, but came from rapidly collapsing dust

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Watering space cucumbers

Life

Space cucumbers may help plants grow better water-seeking roots

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Enormous exoplanet has an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron

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Enormous exoplanet has an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron

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Fast radio bursts may be dark matter ‘stars’ hitting black holes

Space

Fast radio bursts may be dark matter ‘stars’ hitting black holes

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First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away

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First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away

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Smallest satellite ever paves way for planned interstellar fleet

Space

Smallest satellite ever paves way for planned interstellar fleet

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explosion in desert

Physics

Bigger bang theory: teach atoms new tricks to beef up explosives

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Elon Musk seems to have ditched Red Dragon lander plan for Mars

Space

Elon Musk seems to have ditched Red Dragon lander plan for Mars

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We could build a galactic internet but it may take 300,000 years

Space

We could build a galactic internet but it may take 300,000 years

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Illustration showing Moon Express probe against lunar backdrop

Space

Robotic landers could start mining the moon as early as 2020

Moon Express has just unveiled plans for three lunar expeditions. The firm aims to mine moon rocks to sell on Earth, and vague laws mean it probably can

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First close-ups of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot from Juno flyby

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Mike Pence says he touched NASA equipment on a dare

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Space

Rocket failure may delay China’s space station and moon missions

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Earth

Why Morocco loves its meteorites

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