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The imperial units error that downed a multi-million-dollar Mars probe

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The imperial units error that downed a multi-million-dollar Mars probe

20 years ago, NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter dived too deep and was crushed in Mars’s atmosphere. The reason? A mix-up between metric and imperial measurements

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Dust is annoying, but it is also key to life and death in the cosmos

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Dust is annoying, but it is also key to life and death in the cosmos

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How to call the International Space Station

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How to call the International Space Station

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What the quark?! Why matter's most basic building blocks may not exist

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What the quark?! Why matter's most basic building blocks may not exist

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BBC coverage of the Martian invasion will follow shortly

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BBC coverage of the Martian invasion will follow shortly

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Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska

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Exclusive: Rocket test in Alaska polluted 230 tonnes of soil

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Starship at a test facility

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The rocket Elon Musk wants to send to Mars is almost ready to launch

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Photo of the surface of the moon

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NASA's latest moon photos show no sign of India's lost lander

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A strange new type of crystal is made of fluid tied into knots

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A strange new type of crystal is made of fluid tied into knots

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A picture of the Soyuz spacecraft approaching the ISS

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Christina Koch snapped this majestic picture of Soyuz 61 from the ISS

Astronaut Christina Koch snapped this majestic picture of a Soyuz rocket approaching the ISS yesterday, tweeting that her best friend Jessica Meir was inside

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The Institute by Stephen King leads a revolutionary sci-fi reboot

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Coated paper holds secret messages that can be erased with a hairdryer

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Helen Sharman: First British astronaut speaks out on science, climate

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