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Hubble Space Telescope

MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars

Space

Mars's atmosphere hosts metal layers that shouldn't exist

Earth’s magnetic field provokes layers of iron and magnesium in the atmosphere, but Mars has no such field - so finding similar layers is a surprise

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Water telescope uses gamma rays to track new kind of pulsar

Space

Water telescope uses gamma rays to track new kind of pulsar

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The Stellar Echo Imaging of Exoplanets Concept

Space

NASA funds radical Pluto hopper and cosmic echolocation concepts

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Atmosphere containing water detected around rocky exoplanet

Space

Atmosphere containing water detected around rocky exoplanet

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Mission control

Space

Go at throttle up: The secret world of NASA’s mission control

Culture

Oldest dust ever spotted in the universe seen in distant galaxy

Space

Oldest dust ever spotted in the universe seen in distant galaxy

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The reused Falcon 9 rocket launching

Space

Watching SpaceX’s historic relaunch and landing of a used rocket

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SpaceX

Space

SpaceX test-fires engines ahead of rocket re-launch

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launch pad trench

Space

NASA rockets leave blistering record of human space flight

Regulars

Backwards asteroid shares an orbit with Jupiter without crashing

Space

Backwards asteroid shares an orbit with Jupiter without crashing

A rare retrograde asteroid has been spotted in Jupiter's orbital zone - and nudges from the giant planet may have kept it stable there for a million years

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Space

Stray supermassive black hole flung away by gravitational waves

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Space

ExoMars dips into the Martian atmosphere to sniff for life

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Space

Asteroid clay is a better space radiation shield than aluminium

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Space

Could fast radio bursts really be powering alien space ships?

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