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A mountain range on Saturn’s moon Iapetus may be a former ring

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A mountain range on Saturn’s moon Iapetus may be a former ring

Falling space debris should make craters on rocky surfaces. But on Saturn’s moon Iapetus, it might have created a belt of mountains around the equator

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The moon may have formed in a vaporised, doughnut-shaped Earth

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The moon may have formed in a vaporised, doughnut-shaped Earth

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We may have already found signs of alien microbes on Enceladus

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We may have already found signs of alien microbes on Enceladus

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The universe may be full of ex-moons flung from their home worlds

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The universe may be full of ex-moons flung from their home worlds

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Earth was smashed by a rock the size of Mars to make the moon

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Earth was smashed by a rock the size of Mars to make the moon

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The tiny space rock New Horizons is headed for may have a moon

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The tiny space rock New Horizons is headed for may have a moon

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Mysterious streaks seen on Saturn’s moons could be ancient rings

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Mysterious streaks seen on Saturn’s moons could be ancient rings

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Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has a hidden ‘conveyer belt’ of heat

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Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has a hidden ‘conveyer belt’ of heat

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Exoplanet and moon

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Possible exomoon may be an ocean-covered world as big as Saturn

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Astronaut wee could show us how the plumes on Enceladus work

The way spaceships vent urine and water may be a good stand-in for studying how jets of vapour escape the hidden ocean on one of Saturn’s icy moons

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A gaggle of 7 moons keep Saturn’s rings from breaking apart

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