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The Stellar Echo Imaging of Exoplanets Concept

Space

NASA funds radical Pluto hopper and cosmic echolocation concepts

The space agency just announced the recipients of its Innovative Advanced Concepts programme, which kickstarts researchers’ so-crazy-it-just-might-work ideas

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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

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Stray supermassive black hole flung away by gravitational waves

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

The ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter just started its descent in preparation for beginning its main science phase in 2018

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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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Space

NASA's new budget is big on other worlds but ignores our own

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Space

Moon billionaires: how Elon Musk is taking us back to the future

Analysis

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