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Georgina Torbet

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What the Polaris Dawn mission could reveal about human health in space

The Polaris Dawn astronauts have returned to Earth — but the real work has just begun.

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Why NASA is sticking with Boeing

The Starliner debacle fueled speculation that the space agency would dump Boeing. But if it did, it would be left with SpaceX — and Elon Musk.

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The invisible problem with sending people to Mars

Getting to Mars will be easy. It’s the whole ‘living there’ part that we haven’t figured out.

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Euclid space telescope captures tens of thousands of glittering galaxies

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Space

The mission to retrieve a Mars sample is running into turbulence

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Nuclear weapons in space are bad news for the entire planet

‘The old fear has come back.’

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How supernovae are helping uncover the mysteries of dark energy

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Space

Can private companies carry NASA back to the Moon?

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Space lasers!

If we want to go to Mars, we need a better way to reliably relay messages through space. The solution could be optical communication, or lasers.

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NASA collected a sample from an asteroid for the first time — here’s why it matters

The OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, has collected as much as several hundred grams of asteroid material, which could help scientists understand the earliest stages of the Solar System.

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