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Saturn's moon Atlas, which is shaped like a ravioli

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Saturn's flying saucer moon Atlas has a smooth fluffy edge

The Cassini spacecraft just made its final flyby of the small moon Atlas, grabbing the best pictures yet and showing a surprising softness

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MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars

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Mars's atmosphere hosts metal layers that shouldn't exist

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Water telescope uses gamma rays to track new kind of pulsar

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Water telescope uses gamma rays to track new kind of pulsar

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Black hole

Space

Quantum effects cloak impossible singularities with black holes

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The Stellar Echo Imaging of Exoplanets Concept

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NASA funds radical Pluto hopper and cosmic echolocation concepts

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Atmosphere containing water detected around rocky exoplanet

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Atmosphere containing water detected around rocky exoplanet

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Mission control

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Go at throttle up: The secret world of NASA’s mission control

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quantum artwork

Physics

Reality check: The hidden connections behind quantum weirdness

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Oldest dust ever spotted in the universe seen in distant galaxy

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Oldest dust ever spotted in the universe seen in distant galaxy

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The reused Falcon 9 rocket launching

Space

Watching SpaceX’s historic relaunch and landing of a used rocket

Hundreds gathered last night to watch SpaceX attempt to launch and land an orbital rocket that had already been used – a first in space history. Amy Thompson joined the crowds

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SpaceX test-fires engines ahead of rocket re-launch

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NASA rockets leave blistering record of human space flight

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Backwards asteroid shares an orbit with Jupiter without crashing

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Technology

Inside knowledge: Why we'll never know everything

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