The historic mission sent Nasa its highest-resolution images Thursday of dwarf planet’s Sputnik Planum, a region of pitted plains and a strange ‘X’ formation.
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The strange fate of a person falling into a black hole
If you fell into a black hole, you might expect to die instantly. But in fact your fate would be far stranger than that.
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The lost tunnels buried deep beneath the UK
A vast network of 200-year-old tunnels lies beneath Liverpool’s streets – and no one knows why they’re there.
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Risk of comet hitting Earth is greater than previously thought, say researchers
Monitoring of space objects should include giant ‘centaurs’ that could rain down debris for thousands of years, astronomers recommend.
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New type of moon rock discovered by Chinese lunar lander
The Yutu rover, part of the Chang’e-3 unmanned lunar mission, has identified a type of basalt unlike anything collected by previous Soviet or US missions.
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This is why lunar colonies will need to live underground
The coldest parts of Earth come nowhere close to the freezing temperatures of the lunar night – and building a base that can withstand them will not be easy.
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Explanation for Ceres’ mystery bright spots
Scientists think they can now explain the mysterious bright spots on Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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Enceladus: Does this moon hold a second genesis of life?
The Cassini probe is about to bid farewell to Enceladus, the small moon of Saturn that many scientists now regard as the most likely place to find life beyond Earth. We have to go back to study this bright white world in more detail.
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New Horizons: Sharpest images of Pluto’s surface – BBC News
The New Horizons probe has at last returned some of the super-sharp pictures it took of Pluto during its historic flyby in July.
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Scientific inaccuracies your favourite historical characters definitely believed
From smoking being good for you, to it being possible to turn metal into gold, have you ever wondered what Mr Darcy, Dr Frankenstein and Miss Marple would have accepted as plain fact?
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