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NASA has released breathtaking new images of Pluto's surface taken by the New Horizons probe.
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Police officers in Sydney, Australia were called to the scene of a possible domestic violence incident.
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750 million-year-old fossils have revealed evidence of a deadly microbe with vampiric tendencies.
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Kansas governor Sam Brownback signed the peculiar proclamation as a fun way to tackle natural disasters.
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A company in California is hoping to become to the first private venture to land a probe on the moon.
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Some of the most bizarre scientific pursuits were recognized this week with the coveted Ig Nobel Prize.
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NASA's New Horizons probe might have finished with Pluto but its mission is not over by a long shot.
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New images from the New Horizons probe have revealed another vast region of mountains on Pluto's surface.
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NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft will be arriving in orbit around Jupiter in around 12 months' time.
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NASA has confirmed today that the New Horizons probe has successfully made its closest approach to Pluto.
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Just 10 days away from reaching Pluto the spacecraft has suffered an unexplained communications failure.
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Scientists have identified traces of methane inside space rocks that are thought to have come from Mars.
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The Rosetta probe's companion lander Philae has finally awoken after losing power in November.
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New research has emphasized the remarkable persistence of life even in the cold vacuum of space.
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China's burgeoning space program is set to attempt something that nobody has ever tried before.
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A special brain scanner has been used to find out what happens when someone has 'left their body'.
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After a journey of more than three billion miles the probe is expected to reach its destination in July.
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The spacecraft is now set to spend the next 16 months studying the largest object in the asteroid belt.
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Scientists have come up with a concept for a life form that could survive on Saturn's moon Titan.
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NASA has revealed that another mysterious bright spot has been discovered on the dwarf planet's surface.