Earth
Asteroid Florence buzzes Earth in closest fly-by since 1890
A 4.4-kilometre-wide space rock whizzed past Earth on its closest orbit in over a century. This asteroid won鈥檛 get this close again until after 2500
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Space
Some of Uranus’s small moons are doomed to collide
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Space
Steampunk rover design eliminates electronics to survive Venus
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Space
One of Europa鈥檚 plumes may not exist, making hunt for life hard
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Space
I watched the eclipse with scientists hunting the sun鈥檚 secrets
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Space
It could be snowing on Mars right now
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Space
Great American Eclipse: Everything you need to know to get ready
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Physics
Solar eclipse will reveal the roiling fog of plasma we call home
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Space
Ice at Mars鈥檚 equator hints the planet was once much more tilted
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Space
Tethered satellites could see the moon鈥檚 weird swirls up close
The moon has bright coils of dust we can鈥檛 study without getting up close. A NASA proposal would send two satellites tied together to dangle over the surface
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Space
Moon鈥檚 magnetic field lasted twice as long as we thought it did
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Space
Nuclear reactors on rockets may fuel future crewed trips to Mars
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Space
Giant loner asteroids suggest baby planets formed quickly
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Space
Finding the first pulsar set my world spinning
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