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Mars lander abandons underground salt search
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Is dark matter a wimp or a champ?
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Life
‘Water bears’ are first animal to survive space vacuum
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Mars lander to squirrel away soil in advance of winter
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Milky Way’s black hole gets extreme close-up
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Storms squeeze Hubble repair mission schedule
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Dark matter and normal matter ‘divorce’ in cosmic clash
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Do galaxies have a minimum mass?
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New ‘Fermi’ gamma-ray telescope makes first sky map
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Massive galaxy cluster to shed light on cosmic lumpiness
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Rocket failure destroys two NASA experiments
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Simulation shows stars form around black holes after all
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