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NASA probe on Mars may feel the ground shake as rovers land in 2021

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NASA probe on Mars may feel the ground shake as rovers land in 2021

The landings of NASA’s Perseverance rover and China’s Tianwen-1 rover on Mars could be detected by seismometers already on the planet as part of the InSight mission

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2020 in review: The hunt for life on Venus continues

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2020 in review: The hunt for life on Venus continues

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Searching for stardust: How to find micrometeorites in your gutters

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Searching for stardust: How to find micrometeorites in your gutters

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Starship crash

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SpaceX's Starship spacecraft made its highest flight yet then exploded

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The Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is about to deliver asteroid rocks to Earth

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The Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is about to deliver asteroid rocks to Earth

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There are weird volcanoes everywhere we look in the solar system

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There are weird volcanoes everywhere we look in the solar system

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Does a halo of mysterious dark matter swirl around every galaxy?

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Does a halo of mysterious dark matter swirl around every galaxy?

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Arecibo Observatory telescope in Puerto Rico collapses after 57 years

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NASA can't decide whether astronauts should wash their underwear

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China's Chang'e 5 probe is the start of a new era of lunar exploration

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China's Chang'e 5 probe is the start of a new era of lunar exploration

Chang'e 5 is set to bring moon rocks back to Earth for the first time in more than four decades – and China has even more ambitious plans for lunar missions in the coming years

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The universe is expanding too fast, and that could rewrite cosmology

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We’ve seen a planet being born while its star is still forming

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Repeated radio bursts from nearby star suggest such signals are common

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Satellites with flashing LEDs could help avoid catastrophic collisions

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