A fusion of minds
Richard Corfield examines the mystery of the astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell's visit to the Soviet Union in 1963
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Fires ravage Siding Spring Observatory
Site closed for two weeks until full assessments are made
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Thorium could help alien life emerge
Surfeit of radioactivity could warm exoplanets
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Our favourite pictures of 2012
From bio-engineered jellyfish and levitating drops to lunar landscapes
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GRAIL mission peers beneath the Moon’s fractured surface
Map of lunar gravity sheds light on early solar system
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Voyager – a mission for life
Mark Williamson asks what keeps scientists motivated in the 35-year-old Voyager mission
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How Earth’s wandering poles return home
Combination of two mechanisms bring poles back to original location
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Earth’s magnetic shield behaves like a sieve
Cluster-mission data analysis points to a "porous" magnetopause
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The hue of alien Earths
Researchers link the colours of exoplanets to the chances of them harbouring life
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My life on Mars
Ashley Dale recounts his experiences during a two-week stint at the Mars Desert Research Station, a facility in the Utah desert
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