Planets
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Artist mixes real photographs and his vision of deep space to create an otherworldly Instagram feed
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Exoplanet climate analysis pinpoints best place to live in TRAPPIST-1 star system
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Scientists report a super-Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, a mere 6 light-years away
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Farewell, Kepler: NASA’s planet-hunting probe runs out of gas, but mission goes on
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Hubble Space Telescope boosts evidence for first exomoon seen circling alien planet
Search for Planet Nine turns up a way-out dwarf planet that’s called ‘The Goblin’
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TESS probe finds first potential planets
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NASA unveils first science images from TESS probe’s quest to spot alien planets
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What is a ‘planet’? Historical study revisits the debate over Pluto and other dwarfs
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It’s prime time for watching Mars – plus a total lunar eclipse that you can see online
NASA’s Kepler probe suspends planet hunt to download data as fuel runs near empty
NASA’s Dawn probe snaps close-ups of Ceres’ formerly mysterious white spots
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It’s full of stars! NASA’s planet-hunting TESS probe sends back its first test image
Pluto’s champion recounts first mission to icy world – and gears up for the next one
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SpaceX launches NASA’s TESS spacecraft on mission to seek out alien planets
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SpaceX and NASA delay launch of TESS planet hunter to check guidance analysis
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Our solar system has met its match: AI helps scientists find a star’s eighth planet
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Ross 128 redux: Red dwarf sparks interest as a potentially not-so-weird locale for life
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Help NASA and New Horizons nickname the icy world they’re targeting after Pluto
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Newfound dust belts suggest that Proxima Centauri has more than one alien planet
Google Maps expands its interplanetary domain all the way out to Pluto
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Hours before its doom, NASA’s Cassini probe takes its parting shots at Saturn
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Cassini orbiter’s team turns Saturn crash into cause for celebration – and for science
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Project Blue tries again with crowdfunding campaign for planet-watching telescope
Why these scientists argue that we are turning Earth into an alien planet
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Hubble keeps hope alive for water on potentially habitable TRAPPIST-1 planets
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Science fiction has won the war: Best-selling author Greg Bear on the genre’s new ‘golden age’
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Scientists say there may be yet another unseen planet at solar system’s edge
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