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Comet Hitchhiker would take tour of small bodies

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Morning planet spectacle

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Rosetta sees comet’s fireworks display ahead of perihelion

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Philae lander finds ingredients for life

Web Extra: Under Rosetta’s watchful eye

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Totality’s long embrace

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Rosetta spacecraft sees sinkholes on comet

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Exposed water ice detected on Rosetta comet’s surface

Astronomers recently discovered that Scholz’s star passed close to the Sun 70,000 years ago. Wouldn’t its gravity have sent Oort Cloud comets raining into the inner planets?

You can clearly see boulders on comets and asteroids. What are these?

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Perseids reign supreme

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Rosetta’s Philae lander wakes up from hibernation