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InSight picked scissors, so it lost to rock.
The Atacama Desert is the most Mars-like environment on Earth.
Want to explore the solar system, and beyond? Start with education.
Space history was made this week!
A breakthrough that will narrow down the search for alien life.
Did a wet Mars foster life? That's the big question scientists hope to answer in the future.
Drink up!
You should probably try really hard to hold your breath around there, though.
One day, checking the weather on Mars in real-time will be as easy as googling it.
Goodnight, sweet prince...
Adio, Opportunity! You'll be forever in our hearts <3.
It's the perfect name.
NASA is funding a steam-powered spacecraft.
The audacious plan will confirm whether or not we're capable of deflecting asteroids -- at least the tiny ones, for now.
Yay for creative science!
Torque is warping the galaxy's outer disk in an S-shape.
We might need some new physics to explain how this is possible.
An icy disk of smaller objects might be a better explanation.
Should everything go according to plan, ESA wants to launch the mission by 2025.
New insights into how life appeared on Earth -- but also possibly on other planets.
Can I have weekdays in Saturn-days and weekends in Earth-days?
If dinosaurs had telescopes, they might have seen a lonely Saturn, without rings.
No word on how much one of these shows will cost just yet.
It's raining hydrocarbon on Titan.
Hope it won't get dizzy and stumble our way!
The cotton sprouts, unfortunately, perished after a couple of days.
Brian May from Queen also wrote a song about it.
It's the first mission to ever land on the far side of the moon.
Lone stars that roam through intergalactic space might one-day probe the nature of dark matter.
Ca-ching!
If you like it then you should have kept the rings on it.
Biology -- it may literally be out of this world.
Now, that's a first!
It's more than 100 times farther away than Earth is from the sun.
Europa's almost as cold as your ex's heart, just as frozen.
Fancy a trip to outer space?
The planet's largest shark may have been killed by a supernova.
We have a spacecraft inside the sun's atmosphere -- take that in for a moment.
Take me with you!
Helium was predicted to be one of the most common elements of exoplanets, but was only recently observed for the first time.
The natural satellite, not the 1973 album by Pink Floyd. Sadly.
It's hearty space food.
If proven right, this theory could be one of the most important developments in 21st-century physics.
In all honesty, I'd wear a donut if I could get away with it, too.
The number of photons emitted into space is 4 followed by 84 zeroes. Now, that a moment to wrap that figure around your head.
Everything is working according to plan on Mars.
These ancient people were much more savvy than we suspected.
In space, no one can hear you sneeze.
The probe will study 'marsquakes'.
The human brain copes poorly with microgravity -- and that's a big problem for space flight.
