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Five Things to Know About NASA’s New Planet-Hunting Satellite
TESS will scan the skies in search of the next crop of exoplanets
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An Unexpected Asteroid Buzzed by Earth Last Sunday
The space rock is one of the largest ever to come in such close proximity to our planet
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Diamonds Trapped in Strange Meteorite Came From Solar System’s Earliest Planets
Impurities in the diamonds could only have formed within a planet the size of Mercury or Mars
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How to Catch a Glimpse of This Weekend’s Lyrid Meteor Shower
Conditions are expected to be favorable, and experts say the shower might produce as many as 18 meteors every hour
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Sci-Fi and Snakes Rule in New Official Names for Features on Pluto’s Largest Moon and Mercury
Stanley Kubrick and Octavia Butler are among the figures honored
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These Rare NASA Photos Were Saved From the Trash
The 1,500 press images up for sale cover the agency’s manned missions from 1961 to 1972
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NASA Sends Human Sperm to the International Space Station
Astronauts will study how microgravity affects the motility of the little swimmers
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Meet Icarus, The Most Distant Star Yet Detected
The blue supergiant lies 9 billion light-years away
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China’s Tiangong-1 Finally Crashes Back to Earth
Most of the craft likely burned up as it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere
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Scientists Thought All Galaxies Had Dark Matter, but They Just Found One Without It
The find defies the assumption that the mysterious matter is necessary for galaxy formation
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The Rockstar Geologist Who Mapped the Minerals of the Cosmos
A professor told Ursula Marvin she should learn to cook. Instead she chased down meteorites in Antarctica
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If Humans Want To Colonize Other Planets, We Need To Perfect Space Cuisine
At this year’s Future Con, researchers will describe a future of food in space that is anything but bland
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NASA Clean Room Storing Meteorite Samples Is Contaminated With Fungi
Contamination of the not-so-clean room could meddle with results
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Looking Back at Curiosity’s 2,000 Martian Days on the Red Planet
The rover has taken incredible images and made wild discoveries since landing in 2012
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70,000 Years Ago, a Passing Star Shook Up Our Solar System
The red dwarf likely came within one light-year of the sun, altering the course of some asteroids and comets
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NASA Plans to Send High-Definition Video of Mars to Earth With Lasers
In 2022, NASA will launch the Psyche mission, carrying sophisticated communication technology
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How It All Began: A Colleague Reflects On the Remarkable Life of Stephen Hawking
The physicist probed the mysteries of black holes, expanded our understanding of the universe and captured the world’s imagination, says Martin Rees
Five Things to Know About China’s Falling Space Station
For one, it’s exceedingly unlikely to cause you harm
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New Juno Data Gives Unprecedented Glimpse Beneath Jupiter’s Stormy Shell
The massive planet’s storm go much deeper than previously suspected and its interior rotates nearly as a solid mass
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A Space Hotel Could Be Coming Soon to Skies Near You
Bigelow Aerospace wants to launch two inflatable modules for a space habit as early as 2021
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