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New Scientist reports that the mission aims to return a sample that may reveal how Phobos and Deimos formed.
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A post credits Cornell and Bristol researchers with a new mapping technique that captured the atmosphere's bulging evening edge.
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Space reports the two families influence how planetary systems evolve and what happens to them.
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Space.com says Starship still has major capabilities to demonstrate before it can perform full moon and Mars missions.
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Space.com also calls the Whirlpool Galaxy Messier 51, or M51, and points to why its discovery mattered.
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Space.com says the shifts are part of a process known as true polar wander.
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Space.com reports the reentry provider had eight more missions planned over the following year.
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Space.com reports that NASA’s Mars rover passed its smaller cousin Opportunity.
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Space.com says an international fleet of spacecraft made the 1986 encounter a scientific triumph despite skywatchers' disappointment.
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Space.com reports that a faint glow from the early universe could offer a clue to dark energy.
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Space.com says the mission is set to culminate in an attempt to land on a mysteriously reddish space rock.
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Space.com reports astronomers used NASA's Swift spacecraft to observe the radio jets.
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Space.com reports the effort aims to keep static electricity from zapping astronauts or critical hardware.
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Space.com reports it was Falcon 9’s first Starlink mission since September 19.
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Space.com said the mission would send more than 3 tons of cargo toward the station.
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Space.com says the Southern and Northern Taurids will produce meteors worldwide, with moon-free peaks in 2026.
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Space.com says the Soviet crewed mission lasted 24 hours and achieved several human-spaceflight firsts.
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Space.com describes fire erupting in the morning sky over Siberia on June 30, 1908.
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Space.com reports a prior breakup in March 2004; experts call the latest fragmentation part of “a worrying trend.”
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ScienceDaily says a newly formed magnetar could have powered the prolonged emission, a phase earlier missions may have missed.