As NASA faces cuts, China reveals ambitious plans for planetary exploration
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The shape of a Mars mission
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US Space Force official warns there is not enough room to prep satellites as commercial and government missions ramp up
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With Finland's signing of Artemis Accords, NASA celebrates the 53rd nation committing to the safe and responsible exploration of space that benefits humanity
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Andøya Spaceport is centrepiece in the Technology Safeguards Agreement signed by US and Norwegian authorities
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Earth might have had a ring system like Saturn millions of years ago, causing the coldest ice age known
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Firefly and ispace prepare for lunar landing (launch targeted Jan 15, 2025!)
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Satellite space junk might wreak havoc on the stratosphere
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Denmark is the latest country to join the Artemis Accords, the 48th country to sign the document outlining best practices for sustainable space exploration
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NASA launches Europa Clipper mission to investigate namesake Jupiter's moon, a potentially habitable ocean world
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The Moon's orbit is weird
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Earth has caught a temporary 'second moon,' scientists say
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Book review: "Escaping Gravity" by Lori Garver
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Scientists find oceans of water on Mars. It's just too deep to tap.
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The Lunar Crater Database provides the location and dimensions of 1.3 million lunar impact craters
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Curiosity rover discovers sulfur crystals
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NSF halts South Pole megaproject to probe infant cosmos’ growth spurt
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New evidence found for Planet 9
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How Sweden is failing its spacetechs – it's not about the budget, says one founder who moved his company to Finland
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Doubts grow about the biosignature approach to alien-hunting
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US astronomers fight to save X-ray telescope as NASA dishes out budget cuts
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NASA’s x-ray telescope faces a long goodbye
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TRAPPIST-1 caught stripping atmosphere of possibly habitable exoplanet
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New moons of Uranus and Neptune announced
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US Congressional budget gridlock leads to stunning NASA layoffs
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Astronomers make rare exoplanet discovery, and a giant leap in detecting Earth-like bodies
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Scientists attempt to explain “magic islands” on Saturn’s largest moon
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The strange clouds of alien worlds
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NASA to launch NASA+, a free streaming service
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First images of ESA-telescope 'Euclid'
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Earth is hiding another planet deep inside
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What would happen if the Earth had rings?
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A giant European telescope rises as US rivals await rescue
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Supervolcano eruption on Pluto hints at hidden ocean beneath the surface
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Humans have been predicting eclipses for thousands of years, but it’s harder than you might think
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We might have accidentally killed any life we collected in samples on Mars nearly fifty years ago
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Appropriate for spooky season. Venus: Welcome to her nightmare
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory-led team use Iceland as a stand-in for Venus to test radar technologies that will help uncover the planet's ground truth
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Planet K2-18 b has an ocean and atmosphere that could support life
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Clouds on Neptune perform a surprise disappearing act
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Tiny meteorites are everywhere - here's how to find them
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Obituary - Evelyn Boyd Granville, mathematician and programmer, space-flight trailblazer (1924—2023)
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German Aerospace Center (DLR), a NASA VERITAS mission partner, is conducting instrument field tests in Iceland
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While Earth days get longer, NASA finds Mars days are getting shorter
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Researchers find ancient high-energy impacts could have fueled Venus’s volcanism
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Planet that shouldn't exist found
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A big gravitational wave announcement is coming thursday. Here's why we're excited
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This is what happens to an exposed body in space
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The Perseverance Mars rover collected its twentieth sample today
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Life in the cosmos: JWST hints at lower number of habitable planets
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