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Elon Musk has outlined his extraordinarily ambitious plans to make mankind an interplanetary species.
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Scientists believe that the dwarf planet's interior may be filled with large quantities of liquid water.
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Despite its recent setback, the private space firm still has its sights set firmly on the future.
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How long will it be before the Earth essentially 'dies' and all active processes grind to a halt ?
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft has identified what appears to be an ice volcano on the dwarf planet's surface.
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An asteroid that was discovered only last week narrowly missed hitting the planet a few hours later.
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The universe could be filled with primordial black holes which pass through us once every 1,000 years.
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NASA's Juno spacecraft is getting ready to fly within 2,500 miles of the planet Jupiter later on today.
The discovery of an Earth-like world around Proxima Centauri has spurred on efforts to send a probe there.
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NASA's exploratory rover has recorded an impressive panoramic image from the surface of the Red Planet.
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Students in the US have conducted a successful test flight of a small remotely piloted glider aircraft.
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Are shadowy government agencies spraying us with chemicals from airplanes or is the whole idea nonsense ?
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Scientists have allegedly discovered a potentially habitable planet within a neighboring star system.
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China is aiming to revolutionize space travel by developing an ambitious new plane/spacecraft hybrid.
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These carnivorous ocean-dwellers are now thought to be the longest-lived vertebrates on the planet.
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A huge space rock almost half a mile wide has the potential to hit our planet within the next 200 years.
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Manganese found inside rocks on Mars could mean that the Red Planet once had oxygen in its atmosphere.
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Scientists have been attempting to determine why the dwarf planet Ceres has no large craters at all.
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Scientists have identified two distant worlds which could be ideal places to look for alien life.
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Astronomers have identified a previously unknown dwarf planet in the outer reaches of the solar system.