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Leah Crane

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Polaris Dawn mission is one giant leap for private space exploration

An artist’s rendering of the spacewalk on the Polaris Dawn missionSpaceX SpaceX’s…

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Strange meteorites have been traced to their source craters on Mars

An impact crater on Mars, with darker material exposed beneath the reddish…

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The surprising way sunflowers work together to get enough light

Sunflowers may be working togetherShutterstock/Tartezy Sunflowers move in a way that helps…

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We keep finding water on Mars – here are all the places it might be

Martian water may be lurking beneath – or even above – the…

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The JUICE spacecraft may be visible on a near-Earth flyby next week

The JUICE spacecraft may be visible from South-East Asia during an unprecedented…

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A black hole devouring a giant star gives clues to a cosmic mystery

Illustration of a tidal disruption eventMark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images Astronomers have…

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Starliner: Two NASA astronauts may be stuck on the space station until February

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams on the International Space StationNASA NASA…

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Strange planets could be forming inside dying stars

A planet orbiting extremely close to a white dwarf may have formed…

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Could we take the entire solar system on a voyage through space?

Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how…

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