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OSIRIS-REx is about to fling samples of the asteroid Bennu at Earth

NASA鈥檚 OSIRIS-REx mission is about to hurtle past Earth, and if all goes well it will drop its samples from the asteroid Bennu in the Utah desert on 24 September

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Europa (foreground), with Jupiter (right) and Io (middle)

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Europa鈥檚 underground ocean seems to have the carbon necessary for life

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Artist's concept of Makemake

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Eris and Makemake might be hiding unexpected oceans of liquid water

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Could we tweak the solar system to make Pluto a planet again?

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Juice launch 14/04/2023 ESA?s latest interplanetary mission, Juice, lifted off on an?Ariane 5 rocket?from?Europe?s Spaceport?in French 09:14 local time/14:14CEST on 14 April 2023 to begin its eight-year journey to Jupiter, where it will study in detail the gas giant planet?s three large ocean-bearing moons: Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. Juice ? Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer ??is humankind?s next bold mission to the outer Solar System. This ambitious mission will?characterise Ganymede, Callisto and Europa with a powerful suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments to discover more about these compelling destinations as potential habitats for past or present life. Juice will monitor Jupiter?s complex magnetic, radiation and plasma environment in depth and its interplay with the moons, studying the Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giant systems across the Universe. Following launch, Juice will embark on an eight-year journey to Jupiter, arriving in July 2031 with the aid of momentum and direction gained from four gravity-assist fly-bys of the Earth-Moon system, Venus and, twice, Earth. Flight VA260 is the final Ariane 5 flight to carry an ESA mission to space.

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How the JUICE mission will look for habitability on Jupiter’s moons

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A close-up of the sun showing solar wind emerging

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Solar wind that blasts from sun may be driven by tiny plasma flares

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Mysterious dark spot on Neptune seen from Earth for the first time

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All of Neptune鈥檚 clouds have vanished 鈥� it may be because of the sun

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Our solar system might be 1.1 million years older than we thought

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This artist concept portrays the star PDS 70 and its inner protoplanetary disc

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Water seen in young planet system shows Earth may have always been wet

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted water vapour in an area where planets may be forming, which could present an answer to the debate over how Earth got its water

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Could we put out the sun with a sun-sized orb of water?

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Our solar system could be hiding an extra planet the size of Uranus

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Under Alien Skies review: A terrific guide to our spectacular universe

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What are the prospects for life on the icy moons Europa and Enceladus?

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