Space
NASA probe will hurtle past the most distant object we’ve ever visited
In 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft whizzed past Pluto. Now it is about to arrive at Ultima Thule, a tiny space rock 6.6 billion kilometres away from Earth
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A new dwarf planet called Farout is the most distant we’ve ever seen
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First close-up look shows asteroid Bennu is a holey watery world
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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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NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx set to start mission at asteroid Bennu
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Earth may have a pair of ‘ghost moons’ made of dust trapped in orbit
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The BepiColombo spacecraft is about to blast off to Mercury
On 20 October, the BepiColombo spacecraft will begin a 7-year journey to Mercury, where it will orbit and investigate the many mysteries of Mercury
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Humans
The Sun review – a shiny blockbuster for London’s Science Museum
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Moons can have moons and they are called moonmoons
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Distant dwarf planet called ‘The Goblin’ could point to Planet X
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Don’t miss: Darwinian premiere, what’s really real and sun science
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