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A spherical rocky body being destroyed in a collision.

Space

Hundreds of new moons are revealing our solar system's violent history

The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming into view, revealing hints of a surprising past – and the origin of Saturn's rings

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Environment

Wildlife thrives in solar farm built on restored peatland

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Ice on Mercury

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Mercury may have gained all of its unexpected water in a single day

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Aerial view of solar panel. Taiwan

Environment

Solar farm on the ocean outperforms land-based solar in Taiwan

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The rings of Uranus are even stranger than we thought

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Environment

How I pay almost nothing to power my house and electric car

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artist's concept of comet 41P

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We’ve caught a comet switching its spin direction for the first time

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Ů��С��Ƶ of the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants of the NAS of Ukraine in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine, December 15, 2025. Anatoly Doroshenko

Physics

The man who crawls into the perilous heart of the Chernobyl reactor

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Chernobyl 2022

Physics

Exclusive report: Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster

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Environment

Plug-in solar is coming – how dangerous is it and is it worth it?

Plug-in solar panels are a cheaper, simpler alternative to professionally installed panels. But can they really reduce energy bills and are they safe? Matthew Sparkes investigates

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Space

Earth may have formed from two separate rings around the sun

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Space

Mysterious comet disintegration caught by telescope after lucky break

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Space

We’ve spotted a huge asteroid spinning impossibly fast

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Space

NASA changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun for the first time

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