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Mars may have a huge plume of hot rocks rising towards its surface
Mars has been viewed as a mostly geologically static world, but the planet may have an enormous underground plume of hot rocks slowly rising towards the surface
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Meteorite impacts show Mars’s crust is denser than we thought
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Quakes on Mars reveal there may be magma beneath the surface
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Why Mars has captured our hopes and fears for millennia
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Watch a lunar occultation of Uranus
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Physics
Blasting plastic with powerful lasers turns it into tiny diamonds
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Environment
Our neighbouring planets can help us understand Earth’s climate change
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JWST could soon tell us what exoplanets’ surfaces are made of
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A passing star shifting Neptune’s orbit could wreck the solar system
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Stunning solar prominences shine in photography competition
This photograph of solar features called prominences is one of the dazzling cosmic images shortlisted for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in the UK
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Ancient meteorite upends our ideas of how Mars formed
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One in every 50 planets may have been stolen from other stars
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NASA should explore Uranus and Enceladus, say planetary scientists
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Neptune has been slowly cooling for 15 years when it should be warming
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