Environment
Incoming ‘Moby Dick’ asteroid goes missing near Earth
A 270-metre space rock, nicknamed Moby Dick, was due to swing past our planet this week but failed to show up, sparking a global hunt
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Space
Spectacular Mars crater is a big blue boom
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Dwarf planet caught spitting inside asteroid belt
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Space
Snooze-button glitch delayed Rosetta’s wake-up
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Up and at ’em: Rosetta craft gaining on target comet
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Life
Water found in stardust suggests life is universal
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Space
Billion-dollar call: Waiting for Rosetta to phone home
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Earth
AD 536: The year that winter never ended
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Space
Wake up and smell the comet: Rousing the Rosetta probe
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2014 preview: First touchdown on a speeding comet
The Rosetta spacecraft will orbit comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko before releasing a lander that could determine the origin of Earth's oceans
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Space
Infrared reveals stunning colours of asteroid’s crust
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Rare space rock goes unnoticed for 140 years
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Earth
Did asteroid fracking cause Earth’s worst extinction?
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Fiercest meteor shower on record to hit Mars via comet
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