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A pair of astronomers have sifted through old data to find more than half a million…

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Solar power beamed from satellites could provide the UK with a continuous supply of green energy…

Astronomers may have spotted a new spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy

Researchers have found a colossal filament of gas called Cattail at the edge of the galaxy…

NASA’s Perseverance rover took its first Mars sample – but it’s empty

The Perseverance Mars rover made its first sampling attempt on 6 August but the sample tube…

Mercury has almost no boulders on its surface and we're not sure why

Researchers examined about 3000 of the best images we have of the planet Mercury, and only…

Ancient lake in Mars’s Gale crater may have actually been a small pond

Gale crater, which NASA’s Curiosity rover has been exploring for the past eight years, was thought…

The moon may never actually have had a strong magnetic field

We used to think that the moon had a strong magnetic field like Earth’s, but a…

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