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Hubble Space Telescope

Magnetic meteorites narrow down solar system’s birthdate

Space

Magnetic meteorites narrow down solar system’s birthdate

Magnetic fields in 4-billion-year-old rocks suggest the dust and gas cloud that spawned the solar system had gone by 3.8 million years after the sun formed

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Lander looking for life

Space

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

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Person in space suit floating high above Earth

Space

Tweet me, I'm about to die in space

Culture

Space junk satellite

Space

Space junk collector burns up after hitting snag in first test

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Tiny spacecraft could brake at exoplanet using alien starlight

Space

Tiny spacecraft could brake at exoplanet using alien starlight

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Mary Jackson

Space

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

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Katherine Johnson

Space

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

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calculators

Space

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

Culture

This smooth rock may be a metal meteorite on Mars

Space

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

Space

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

In 1604, the last Milky Way supernova recorded by naked-eye observers brightened the night sky. Despite 400 years of study, we still don't know what lit the fuse

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Space

Metal asteroid and Trojans selected for next NASA missions

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Space

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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