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An organization in San Francisco is planning to send messages out to potentially habitable planets.
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Scientists have discovered a flow of liquid iron in the planet's core 3000km beneath the surface.
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Two new studies have revealed that the dwarf planet Ceres is home to significant quantities of water ice.
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A prominent NASA scientist has outlined just how vulnerable our planet is to threats from outer space.
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Astronomers have observed strong winds and changing cloud cover on an alien planet for the first time.
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Extrasolar planets may not be the only place where it is possible to find signs of extraterrestrial life.
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The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) has returned a set of high-quality test photographs from the Red Planet.
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Thousands were left perplexed by the high-altitude aircraft which circled for about an hour on Wednesday.
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It is looking increasingly likely that the dwarf planet is home to a vast subterranean ocean of water.
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Being high up above the planet didn't stop astronaut Shane Kimbrough from casting his vote last week.
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Scientists have spotted X-rays trickling from the dwarf planet despite there being no obvious source.
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The large green reptile slithered out of a ceiling compartment during a routine flight to Mexico City.
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A surveillance plane has been looking in to reports of a 'pinging' sound in the Fury and Hecla Strait.
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If an astronaut dies in space, could their body eventually go on to spread microbes to other planets ?
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A large planet lurking in the outer solar system could be causing the sun's rotational axis to tilt.
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Seven decades ago, scientists in new Mexico took the first ever pictures of our planet from outer space.
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Referred to as the 'first nation state in space', Asgardia will seek to safeguard the entire planet.
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This tiny, distant world is believed to take up to 1,140 years to complete a single orbit of the Sun.
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The US President has reiterated his efforts to send humans to the Red Planet within the coming decades.
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Scientists believe that a nearby extrasolar planet is 'likely' to be capable of supporting alien life.