ESA picks Germany’s Exolaunch for arctic weather satellite mission

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Japan's moon probe landed upside-down but somehow it still works

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Imagery from one of its rovers shows the SLIM probe landed at a peculiar angle.

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The wife of a SpaceX worker whose skull was fractured after rocket engine malfunction sues for negligence, report says

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Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002.
Elon Musk is CEO of SpaceX.

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Black holes are rampaging through our universe at more than 2.2 million mph and scientists think they now know why

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Illustration of a black hole warping space-time around it.
On rare occasions, black holes can get kicked into space after they form.

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ESA embarks on world-first mission to detect ripples in the fabric of space-time

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NASA's Mars helicopter broke during a mysterious communication blackout. Now it will never fly again.

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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, in a close-up from the Perseverance rover's cameras.

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A new space photo of Japan's first spacecraft to land on the moon shows why it's not generating any power

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image taken by a Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 (LEV-2) of a robotic moon rover called Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, on the moon.
Image taken by a Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 (LEV-2) of Japan's SLIM lander upside down on the moon.

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NASA telescope discovers mysterious hotspot of high-energy particles beyond our galaxy

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An artist's interpretation of a gamma-ray burst.

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James Webb Space Telescope reveals one of the most mysterious worlds in the universe might have a volcanic moon

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On left is an illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope. On right is an illustration of a brown dwarf with an aurora at its north pole.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found evidence to suggest aurora on brown dwarf W1935.

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ESA orbiter discovers huge ice water deposits at Mars’ equator

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