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Saturn's moon Atlas, which is shaped like a ravioli

Space

Saturn's flying saucer moon Atlas has a smooth fluffy edge

The Cassini spacecraft just made its final flyby of the small moon Atlas, grabbing the best pictures yet and showing a surprising softness

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MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars

Space

Mars's atmosphere hosts metal layers that shouldn't exist

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Water telescope uses gamma rays to track new kind of pulsar

Space

Water telescope uses gamma rays to track new kind of pulsar

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The Stellar Echo Imaging of Exoplanets Concept

Space

NASA funds radical Pluto hopper and cosmic echolocation concepts

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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

Until recently, a flame trench under launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida bore the scorch marks of decades of rocket launches

Regulars

Space

Backwards asteroid shares an orbit with Jupiter without crashing

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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

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Space

Asteroid clay is a better space radiation shield than aluminium

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