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Space

A rogue star may explain why the outer solar system is so odd

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Making of an Astronaut

This engineer wants to make Mars the 'new branch of human civilization'

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Environment

Why supersized solar farms are sprouting around the world

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Denis Bajram / Geneva University

Space

Hottest exoplanet ever discovered has metal skies, rain like lava