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How two tiny dots defy the history of life and the solar system
Two specks of rock that formed when Earth was young suggest we've got to rethink everything from the story of the solar system to the origins of life
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NASA’s Dawn probe may visit third asteroid after Ceres and Vesta
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Space
Our top 5 wacky NASA missions that might just happen
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Space
Asteroid barrage may have birthed a short-lived ocean on Mars
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Space
Luxembourg’s asteroid mining bid is Europe鈥檚 first
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Space
NASA CubeSat missions will pave way for human space flight
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Space
Philae lander fails to respond to last-ditch efforts to wake it
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Space
Famous Wow! signal might have been from comets, not aliens
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Space
Dwarf planet Ceres looks like an asteroid but acts like a comet
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Space
Rosetta’s comet has oxygen made before the solar system’s birth
Molecular oxygen has been spotted on a comet for the first time, which could help solve a mystery about when the substance first appeared in the solar system
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Life
Volcanoes plus asteroid might have finished off dinosaurs
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Space
Budget NASA missions will head for asteroids or hellish Venus
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Space
Rosettawatch: Comet 67P’s weather revealed as sun melts ice
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Earth
Total eclipse glowing over icy pyramids wins photo prize
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