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A team of science students is hoping to become the first to grow plants on the surface of the Red Planet.
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Moscow State University will be storing the DNA of every living creature on the planet.
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Alexander Gerst has created a breathtaking visual record of our planet as seen from space.
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A future manned mission to Venus could see astronauts piloting blimps around the planet's atmosphere.
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NASA's Kepler space telescope has made its first discovery since being crippled by a technical fault.
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Scientists have determined how huge sand dunes up to 300ft high managed to form on the Saturnian moon.
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A chunk of rock that landed in Morocco may hold evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet.
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Scientists have identified an invisible shield around our planet that protects us from deadly electrons.
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Curiosity has located a ledge of rocks that could hold important clues about the origins of the planet.
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Speculation is rife over the purpose of a secretive Russian spacecraft currently orbiting the planet.
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Paul Rosolie will don a special suit so that he can be eaten by an anaconda for an upcoming documentary.
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A new study has revealed that our planet's population is even more out of control than we realize.
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Astronomers have identified the first ever ice giant planet beyond our own solar system.
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Vast distances between habitable planets could make communication with alien life an inviable concept.
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Two more unusually shaped rock formations have been discovered on the surface of the Red Planet.
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Astronomers have found signs of water vapor on a planet located around 120 light years from Earth.
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The satellite has arrived in orbit around the Red Planet after a 10-month voyage across the solar system.
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Extrasolar planets with a companion world tugging at them could remain habitable for much longer.
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Astronomers have identified an extrasolar planet that takes 708 days to complete one orbit of its star.
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A new study has concluded that an exoplanet requires a liquid water ocean in order to sustain life.