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Space & Missions
Launches, spacecraft, satellites, exploration programs and the engineering that carries people and instruments beyond Earth.
Cosmonauts thawed a frozen space station by flashlight and fur hats
Olympus Mons's massive flank collapses sent rubble hundreds of kilometers across Mars
Astronauts' dirty laundry literally falls from the sky in fireballs
70 young stars clustered in one dark gas cloud, dominated by a monster star
NASA restored 1960s Moon photos inside an abandoned McDonald's restaurant
Beagle 2 was found on Mars years later, but its failure to communicate remains uncertain
China's space station could become humanity's only outpost in orbit
Mars has nearly as much dry land as Earth despite being half its size
German startup achieves Western Europe's first orbital launch from its own soil
Mars's red dust formed while the planet was still wet, study finds
