Space
The New Horizons probe is awake and ready for its next flyby
For the last 6 months, the New Horizons聽spacecraft that flew past Pluto in 2015 has been in hibernation, hurtling towards a distant rock 鈥� it has just woken up
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Environment
A day used to be less than 19 hours long 1.4 billion years ago
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Space
Pluto is not a planet 鈥� it’s a billion comets squished together
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Space
Why Saturn’s inner moons look like ravioli, cigars and potatoes
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Space
Weird backwards asteroid may be an interstellar interloper
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Space
Falling mini-moons may have created Earth鈥檚 first continents
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We鈥檝e lost track of more than 900 near-Earth asteroids
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Probe saw plumes on Europa 20 years ago – we just didn’t notice
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The sun will die in a blaze of swirling gas in 5 billion years
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Gamma rays from the sun are acting weird and nobody knows why
A survey of the sun鈥檚 radiation turned up two surprises: a dip in low-energy gamma rays, and far more high-energy gamma rays than predicted. And nobody knows why
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Space
Diamond meteorites may come from a lost ancient planet
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Young Saturn gave Jupiter the building blocks for its big moons
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Life on toxic Venus? Acid-loving microbes could thrive in clouds
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Jupiter’s hefty twin found just 12 light years away
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