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Joint mission to Europa could seek life under the ice

Space agencies have just been presented with a bold plan to search for aliens on Jupiter’s icy moon through a joint American-European mission

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Saturn's moon Atlas, which is shaped like a ravioli

Space

Saturn's flying saucer moon Atlas has a smooth fluffy edge

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MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars

Space

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

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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

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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

A space image-processing enthusiast claims that he’s found signs of Saturn’s moon’s majestic plumes from 1980 – decades before they were discovered

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Technology

9 quotes that tell the dramatic story of supersonic flight

Features

Space

New NASA teams will make human Mars missions light and efficient

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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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