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Astronomers found a weird asteroid closer to the sun than any other

Scientists have found three strange asteroids that orbit relatively close to the sun – one is the closest to the sun we have ever found, and another may someday hit Earth

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A long-lost rogue planet could explain unexpectedly distant asteroids

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NASA’s Juno spacecraft takes closest images of Europa for 20 years

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Webb?s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) image of Neptune, taken on July 12, 2022, brings the planet?s rings into full focus for the first time in more than three decades. The most prominent features of Neptune?s atmosphere in this image are a series of bright patches in the planet?s southern hemisphere that represent high-altitude methane-ice clouds. More subtly, a thin line of brightness circling the planet?s equator could be a visual signature of global atmospheric circulation that powers Neptune?s winds and storms. Additionally, for the first time, Webb has teased out a continuous band of high-latitude clouds surrounding a previously-known vortex at Neptune?s southern pole.

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JWST has captured an astonishing view of Neptune and its rings

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Saturn's rings could have come from a destroyed moon named Chrysalis

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Our neighbouring planets can help us understand Earth's climate change

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Our neighbouring planets can help us understand Earth's climate change

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The Moonday Letters review: Genre-busting sci-fi extols hope as a duty

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A passing star shifting Neptune’s orbit could wreck the solar system

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2DEWC6E Beijing, China. 2nd Dec, 2020. This image taken from video animation at Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) shows Chang'e-5 spacecraft landing on the moon. China's Chang'e-5 spacecraft successfully landed on the near side of the moon late Tuesday and sent back images, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced. Credit: Jin Liwang/Xinhua/Alamy Live News

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Moon rocks collected by the Chang’e 5 mission have water in them

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Why the next big solar storm might hit Earth without warning

A big solar storm could fry the internet, but at least space weather forecasts would give us a day or two to prepare. Or maybe not, because physicists have just discovered a new kind of solar storm that strikes without notice

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Pairs of giant planets may make their star systems ultra-habitable

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This high resolution image of the icy crust of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, reveals a surface criss-crossed by multiple sets of ridges and fractures

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We now know how the mysterious ridges covering Europa’s surface formed

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Earth’s magnetosphere replicated in miniature using lasers and magnets

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Main ? Voyager 2 view of Neptune, captured in August 1989. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

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Neptune has been slowly cooling for 15 years when it should be warming

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