Space
Dwarf planet Ceres looks like an asteroid but acts like a comet
Shiny spots and minerals on Ceres suggest it may have been born in the outer solar system, and that our classification of asteroids and planets is wrong
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Space
Japanese Akatsuki probe enters Venus orbit after inspired hack
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New Horizons releases first images of Pluto in sharpest focus
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Earth
Northern Lights now appear in central Europe and much of US
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Physics
Pathfinder blasts off to look for Einstein’s gravitational waves
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Space
LISA Pathfinder spacecraft ready for lift-off
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Life
Pairs of habitable worlds could throw microbes at each other
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Physics
Chinese satellite to shine a light on mysterious dark matter
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Space
Spacecraft that will put Einstein to the test ready for lift-off
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Flying gold knocked the moon off course and ruined eclipses
The same space rocks that brought precious metals to Earth's surface also knocked the moon's orbit off-kilter, robbing us of twice-monthly eclipses
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Pluto deserves better than a one-night stand
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Beyond Pluto: New Horizons probe aims for another unseen world
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Pluto kept alive by antifreeze 鈥� other icy worlds could be too
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Space
Our moon would be a planet under new definition of planethood
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