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  • How future spacecraft might handle tricky landings on Venus or Europa

    Fan-powered descents and nimble landing legs are just two ideas for touching down safely

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  • When The Soviet Union Collapsed, A Cosmonaut Was Left Stranded In Space

    On May 18, 1991, cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev departed Earth for the Soviet space station Mir. While he was up there, the country that had sent him ceased to exist, making Krikalev – for a few months at least – the “last Soviet citizen”.

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  • NASA’s Planet Hunter Completes Its Primary Mission

    On July 4, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) finished its primary mission, imaging about 75% of the starry sky as part of a two-year-long survey.

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  • Astronomers discover new ‘fossil galaxy’ buried deep within the Milky Way

    Source: Phys.org Scientists working with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys’ Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) have discovered a “fossil galaxy” hidden in the depths of our own Milky Way. This result, published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, may shake up our understanding of how the Milky Way

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  • Inside a Dying Japanese Town Obsessed With Aliens

    The town is home to a striking mountain that residents believe attracts flying saucers.

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  • Researchers Create Map of Electric Currents in Magnetosphere of Mars

    Using five years of magnetic field data obtained by NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, a team of scientists has created the first-ever map of the electric current systems in the Martian induced magnetosphere. Their results appear in the journal Nature Astronomy.

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