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With Dusty Solar Panels, InSight’s Days on Mars Are Numbered
After the InSight lander studied the strongest marsquake ever detected, scientists gave the space robot a...
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Researchers Grew Tiny Plants in Moon Dirt Collected Decades Ago
The seedlings sprouted in the regolith scooped up in the 1960s and ’70s, but astronauts won’t...
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Delegates at the United Nations Have Begun Forging New Rules for Space
International experts are using earthly policies as models to hash out regulations for orbiting spacecraft, from...
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Mars Colonies Will Need Solar Power—and Nuclear Too
A new study shows how future inhabitants of the Red Planet could run on either energy...
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NASA's Psyche Spacecraft Heads to Cape Canaveral
This August, following tests at the launch site, the probe will voyage to the middle of...
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Get Ready for a Decade of Uranus Jokes
In an influential report that comes out once a decade, researchers propose a space mission to...
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NASA Will Roll Back Its SLS Rocket for Repairs
After three attempts to run through a test of the Space Launch System, engineers spotted a...