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The imperial units error that downed a multi-million-dollar Mars probe

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The imperial units error that downed a multi-million-dollar Mars probe

20 years ago, NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter dived too deep and was crushed in Mars’s atmosphere. The reason? A mix-up between metric and imperial measurements

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Dust is annoying, but it is also key to life and death in the cosmos

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Dust is annoying, but it is also key to life and death in the cosmos

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How to call the International Space Station

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How to call the International Space Station

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Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska

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Exclusive: Rocket test in Alaska polluted 230 tonnes of soil

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Starship at a test facility

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The rocket Elon Musk wants to send to Mars is almost ready to launch

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Photo of the surface of the moon

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NASA's latest moon photos show no sign of India's lost lander

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A picture of the Soyuz spacecraft approaching the ISS

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Christina Koch snapped this majestic picture of Soyuz 61 from the ISS

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Helen Sharman: First British astronaut speaks out on science, climate

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Helen Sharman: First British astronaut speaks out on science, climate

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European satellite will reveal Earth's atmosphere in unrivalled detail

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Ad Astra: Pirates and space monkeys can't save dull space psychodrama

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Ad Astra: Pirates and space monkeys can't save dull space psychodrama

Brad Pitt stars in thoughtful sci-fi Ad Astra, but even his strong performance can't plug the plot holes in this movie's melancholy heart

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What is space-time? The true origins of the fabric of reality

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India's Vikram moon lander appears to have crashed on the moon

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How a Soviet space station became a symbol of space cooperation

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Einstein’s black holes are not the black holes we see in reality

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