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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Akatsuki space mission reaches Venus after five-year detour
Spacecraft "is in good health", says Japanese space agency
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Radiation blasts render Earth's twin inhospitable to life
Powerful superflares may rip away the exoplanet's atmosphere
Is there life on Mars?
Lewis Dartnell discusses the search for life on Mars and what forms it might take
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Mysterious dust and diffuse aurorae envelop the red planet
MAVEN spacecraft spots tiny particles surrounding Mars that could have an interplanetary origin
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How can we find life on distant planets?
Sara Seager describes some of the signatures of life
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Web life: Astrobites
A blog where astronomy PhD students write bite-sized summaries of recent astronomy papers for undergraduates
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European superscope reveals its three ‘first-light’ instruments
Agreements signed for E-ELT's phase 1 instruments with the UK, France, Germany and other European states
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