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MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars

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

Earth’s magnetic field provokes layers of iron and magnesium in the atmosphere, but Mars has no such field - so finding similar layers is a surprise

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The Stellar Echo Imaging of Exoplanets Concept

Space

NASA funds radical Pluto hopper and cosmic echolocation concepts

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Mission control

Space

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

Culture

MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars

Space

NASA orbiter shows Mars lost 90 per cent of its CO₂ to space

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launch pad trench

Space

NASA rockets leave blistering record of human space flight

Regulars

Earth

Environment

US climate science in the firing line for Trump's first budget

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NASA's new budget is big on other worlds but ignores our own

Space

NASA's new budget is big on other worlds but ignores our own

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Voyager 1 looked back at Saturn on Nov. 16, 1980, four days after the spacecraft flew past the planet

Space

Voyager 1 might have seen Enceladus’ icy plumes 25 years early

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Concorde

Technology

9 quotes that tell the dramatic story of supersonic flight

Features

Future astronauts will need places to live on Mars

Space

New NASA teams will make human Mars missions light and efficient

NASA just funded two new institutes to develop technology for future space missions: one to make lighter materials, one to help build with the resources on Mars itself

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Space

Mars landing sites for 2020 NASA mission down to the final three

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Space

NASA wants to put a lander on Europa’s surface to look for life

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Earth

Large asteroid impacts may be rare, but we should be prepared

Comment

Space

Here's how Trump's presidency could be good news for science

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