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Huge asteroid impact may have knocked over Jupiter's largest moon

Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, has signs of an enormous ancient impact that would have redistributed its mass, changing its orientation in relation to Jupiter

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The JUICE spacecraft may be visible on a near-Earth flyby next week

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On 19?20 August 2024, ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) will achieve a world first: using the gravity of the Moon and then Earth to bend its path through space, bringing it one step closer to Jupiter.

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Could we take the entire solar system on a voyage through space?

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The sun could capture rogue planets from 3.8 light years away

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Lunar samples reveal exactly when the moon’s largest crater formed

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Could we set Uranus on fire to steal its hidden diamonds?

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Moon of Saturn has an equivalent of freshwater rivers and salty oceans

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What would happen if Earth was the centre of the solar system?

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Is an old NASA probe about to redraw the frontier of the solar system?

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Is an old NASA probe about to redraw the frontier of the solar system?

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Pluto and the largest moon of Neptune might be siblings

The chemical composition of Pluto and Triton suggests they originated in the same region of the outer solar system before the latter was pulled into Neptune’s orbit

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Tiny black holes hiding in the sun could trace out stunning patterns

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Mars is blasting plasma out of its atmosphere into space

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How could we make a solar eclipse happen every day?

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A single meteorite smashed into Mars and created 2 billion craters

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