Extraterrestrial light shows
Sarah Badman explains how observations of auroras on other planets are revealing new facts about these fascinating and beautiful phenomena
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NASA’s Juno craft arrives at Jupiter
$1.1bn mission will study the origin and inner structure of the largest planet in our solar system
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Brave new Jupiter
With NASA’s Juno spacecraft arriving at Jupiter this July, Stephen Ornes reports on what scientists have in store for this distant probe
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New Horizons lifts the lid on Pluto’s peculiar polygons
Convection cells create the patchwork surface of Sputnik Planum, say scientists
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Ingredients for life spotted on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
Glycine could have arrived on a young Earth from space, say Rosetta scientists
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Mega-tsunamis shaped ancient Martian shoreline
Huge meteorite impacts created a splash in northern Mars 3.4 billion years ago
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What can we learn from comets?
These "dirty snowballs" can teach us about the history of our solar system
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Mission to Mars launches in search of signs of life
The Trace Gas Orbiter will study the red planet's atmosphere and test landing technologies
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Is the solar system's planetary count back up to nine?
Evidence found for a ninth giant planet in the Kuiper belt
Our favourite pictures of 2015
From bursting balloons and fossils under a laser to visions of Pluto and gravitationally lensed supernovae
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