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SpaceX investors urge company to paint its rockets pink and rename them
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NASA boss balks at billion-dollar estimate for recycled Moon rover
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MaiaSpace Losses Required ArianeGroup to Decide on Company’s Future
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Pluto was expected to be a frozen, cratered relic, but when New Horizons flew past in 2015 it found flowing nitrogen glaciers, mountains of water ice and hints of a hidden ocean, on a world where the Sun looks like just a bright star
For most of the time we have known about Pluto, it was a smudge. Even the Hubble Space…
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On this day in space! Aug. 3, 2004: NASA launches MESSENGER spacecraft to orbit Mercury
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The largest moon in the Solar System is bigger than Mercury and hides an ocean beneath its icy surface |
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Moonquakes could reveal hidden water beneath the lunar surface
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Astronomers watch a black hole’s feeding frenzy end with a bad case of cosmic indigestion
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Sir Brian May and New Order join Jodrell Bank Observatory campaign – BBC
Sir Brian May and New Order join Jodrell Bank Observatory campaign BBCArtists, writers and scientists urge UK government to…