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Ultima Thule is a snowman-shaped rock covered in weird ice
The New Horizons spacecraft just flew past a distant rock called MU69 or Ultima Thule that looks like a snowman - and it may have exotic ices on its surface
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Crashing tidal waves may lurk beneath the surface of icy moons
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Massive space rock smash-up with Uranus recreated in a riot of colour
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NASA probe will hurtle past the most distant object we鈥檝e ever visited
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A new dwarf planet called Farout is the most distant we鈥檝e ever seen
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First close-up look shows asteroid Bennu is a holey watery world
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Interstellar asteroid 鈥極umuamua 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鈥檛 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
The sun has a north pole but no spacecraft has ever photographed it. Now the European Space Agency has cleverly pieced a together picture of it using other images
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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
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The Sun review 鈥� a shiny blockbuster for London鈥檚 Science Museum
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