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A Chinese spacecraft on a mission to collect and return samples of a near-Earth asteroid beamed back its first image of its ...

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A three-armed spacecraft is rushing to the rescue of a NASA telescope that’s in danger of crashing back to Earth.

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Scientists propose building a lab on the moon to screen Mars and other space samples for alien microbes before they ever ...

Something is absorbing light on the surfaces of Pluto and Saturn’s moon Titan, and figuring out what it is could be crucial to understanding Titan’s complex chemistry ...