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Hubble Space Telescope

The Red Planet

Space

Next-gen Mars orbiters to help human missions become more real

NASA has funded studies to investigate how new orbiter spacecraft can best serve a human ground crew on Mars for a potential mission in the 2020s

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Einstein's clock: The doomed black hole to set your watch by

Space

Einstein's clock: The doomed black hole to set your watch by

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SpaceX launches DNA sequencer and new docking port to the ISS

Space

SpaceX launches DNA sequencer and new docking port to the ISS

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Mysterious swoosh caused by pulsars hugging companions close

Space

Mysterious swoosh caused by pulsars hugging companions close

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Baby stars grow big and strong by eating their own burst bubbles

Space

Baby stars grow big and strong by eating their own burst bubbles

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Largest-ever map of 1.2 million galaxies measures dark energy

Space

Largest-ever map of 1.2 million galaxies measures dark energy

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Milky Way’s bulge may have been formed by the galaxy buckling

Space

Milky Way’s bulge may have been formed by the galaxy buckling

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tim peake smiling, and reclining in microgravity presumably on the ISS

Space

Tim Peake: Robots won’t replace me for 100 years

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Resurrected radio dish could guide GPS on the moon

Space

Resurrected radio dish could guide GPS on the moon

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Two kaleidoscopic columns made up of leaves and fronds

Technology

Missing the natural world? Just add multimedia

Future Mars explorers may not know much about art, but artist Mark Ware believes he can make something they will like

Culture

NASA’s Juno probe enters near-perfect orbit around Jupiter

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Space

NASA approves new far-flung destination for Pluto space probe

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Space

Up close with the awesome power of NASA's biggest ever rocket

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Space

Fiery exoplanet may see a trillion lightning flashes in an hour

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