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Decades-old pictures of Pluto’s heart are breaking the Internet again. University of Oxford's Dr Carly Howett explains the science behind the New Horizons mission and that famous 5-billion-kilometre ...

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A new discovery suggests the possibility of an exomoon with an unprecedentedly large mass, thousands of times larger than any ...