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Dawn spacecraft approved to spend another year studying Ceres

NASA has extended the mission of the Dawn probe around the icy dwarf planet Ceres. It will dip toward Ceres's surface and study its tenuous atmosphere

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A 300-kilometre space rock has vanished since we saw it in 1995

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A 300-kilometre space rock has vanished since we saw it in 1995

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The 5 biggest discoveries from the hunt for gravitational waves

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The 5 biggest discoveries from the hunt for gravitational waves

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Astronaut wee could show us how the plumes on Enceladus work

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A gaggle of 7 moons keep Saturn’s rings from breaking apart

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A gaggle of 7 moons keep Saturn’s rings from breaking apart

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Distant dwarf planet near Pluto has a ring that no one expected

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Distant dwarf planet near Pluto has a ring that no one expected

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A moon base

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It was always crazy to shoot for Mars before colonising the moon

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Elon Musk’s new plans for a moon base and a Mars mission by 2022

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Elon Musk’s new plans for a moon base and a Mars mission by 2022

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Ley

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Rocket man: Willy Ley's fervour helped put men on the moon

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OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zooms by Earth on its way to an asteroid

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OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zooms by Earth on its way to an asteroid

On its way to collect dust samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’S OSIRIS-REx spaceship will slingshot around Earth, passing 17,000 kilometres above Antarctica

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Infamous three-body problem has over a thousand new solutions

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Brown dwarfs have strong magnetic fields just like real stars

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Cassini takes last look at the ring patterns made by mini moons

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Tears for Cassini: why it's OK to well up over a lump of metal

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