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Space

Plasma jet engines that could take you from the ground to space

Jet engines that compress gas into a plasma have been successfully tested at ground level for the first time

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Space

No crew planned for NASA's first Space Launch System mission

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Stars can start shining at a smaller mass than we thought

Space

Stars can start shining at a smaller mass than we thought

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MetLife Tower

Space

Final demands: We explore sci-fi's unworldly money troubles

Culture

What vision of doom made Hawking seek a faster Earth exit plan?

Space

What vision of doom made Hawking seek a faster Earth exit plan?

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Space

Watch Cassini's first two dives between Saturn and its rings

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Saturn

Space

Cassini takes first plunge between Saturn's rings

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Physics

Time crystals: A new state of matter that outlasts the universe

Features

An astronaut in a spacesuit during a space walk

Space

NASA might run out of space suits before it quits the ISS

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Marvel at the images from Cassini's first Grand Finale orbit

Space

Marvel at the images from Cassini's first Grand Finale orbit

The Cassini spacecraft is beginning its final set of daring orbits with breathtaking images of the Saturn system and rings

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Space

First look at images from Cassini's dive between Saturn's rings

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Space

Melting moons could support liveable atmospheres for aeons

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Space

Joint mission to Europa could seek life under the ice

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Space

Icy Enceladus’s tiger stripes are a window on its watery depths

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