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Lander looking for life

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NASA wants to put a lander on Europa’s surface to look for life

If it goes ahead, the proposed lander mission would be NASA’s first search for life on the surface of another planet since the Mars Viking missions in the late seventies

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Person in space suit floating high above Earth

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Tweet me, I'm about to die in space

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Space junk satellite

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Space junk collector burns up after hitting snag in first test

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Tiny spacecraft could brake at exoplanet using alien starlight

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Tiny spacecraft could brake at exoplanet using alien starlight

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Mary Jackson

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When computers were human: The black women behind NASA’s success

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calculators

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Lost in space: Two books on the forgotten women of astroscience

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Katherine Johnson

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Katherine Johnson: The brilliant woman who got the US into space

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This smooth rock may be a metal meteorite on Mars

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Curiosity finds Mars rock that may be a meteorite made from iron

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Cold case: The unsolved mystery of what lit Kepler's supernova

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Cold case: The unsolved mystery of what lit Kepler's supernova

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Metal asteroid and Trojans selected for next NASA missions

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Metal asteroid and Trojans selected for next NASA missions

The US space agency will send probes to metallic asteroid Psyche and the mysterious Trojans that flank Jupiter in the 2020s

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Four extreme environments where humans are tasting life on Mars

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Life

My year on Mars: Frontier life of a space doctor

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Earth

Large asteroid impacts may be rare, but we should be prepared

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Cassini's grand finale will see orbiter plunge into Saturn

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