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    Dr. Lewis Dartnell is an astrobiologist and science author based at the University of Westminster.

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    Could humans be too heavy to land on Mars?

    The Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/J. Cowart, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
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    The curious cloud above Mars’s Arsia Mons volcano

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    The planets that orbit a backward-spinning star

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    Asteroid Belt: what is it and how did it form?

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    Artist's impression of the view from a Kuiper Belt Object. Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
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    How astronomers weighed the Kuiper Belt

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    What happens when exoplanets orbit two stars at once?

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    Winds on Mars: understanding the Red Planet’s atmosphere

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    Exomoons: the next step in exoplanet science

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    How scientists estimate the ages of planetary surfaces

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    Was Mercury stripped away by a colossal impact and the solar wind?

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    Peter Pan discs: the planetary systems that never grow up

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    Electric propulsion: the future of spaceflight?

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