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Illustration of the Voyager 1 spacecraft. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Voyager 1 activated engines that had been dormant for 37 years

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Merlin engine test at the SpaceX facility in Texas, 2012. Source: SpaceX.

A SpaceX rocket engine exploded during a test for a new version of the Falcon 9

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China has released very few details about the space plane it is developing, not even a single simulation or diagram explaining its shape. The above illustration shows a simulation of the Rockwell X-30 space plane, which was canceled in 1993. Source: James Schultz, NASA.

China is developing a multipurpose space plane that will be launched for the first time in 2020

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Falcon 9 launcher on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center. Source: SpaceX.

SpaceX will launch the two future communication space satellites

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Visualization of the planetary ring surrounding the football-shaped dwarf planet, the Omiya. Source: IAA-CSIC/UHU.

A planetary ring has been discovered around the Umi dwarf planet

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The used Falcon 9 soars into the sky in yesterday's successful launch. Source: SpaceX.

SpaceX launched a used Falcon 9 launcher for the third time - and landed it on a rig in the middle of the sea

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Simulation of the InSight lander to Mars. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

NASA invites you to add your name to its next Mars rover

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Simulation of the BFR spacecraft taking off from Mars back to Earth. The weak gravity of Mars, together with its thin atmosphere, allow a spacecraft to take off into space without the need for the huge launcher that it carried on its launch from Earth. Source: SpaceX.

Elon Musk reveals the way he will pay for his giant Mars rover

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A simulation of the Dragonfly mission proposal, to send a rover that could fly through the dense and icy atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan. Source: APL/Mike Carroll.

Which spacecraft will succeed Cassini in exploring the secrets of Saturn and its moons?

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Simulation of the Osiris-Rex spacecraft approaching Earth. Source: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Arizona.

The Osiris-Rex spacecraft passed near Earth on its way to collect a sample from a nearby asteroid

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Simulation of the Curiosity rover firing a laser beam at a rock on Mars. The laser vaporizes part of the rock, and the rover examines the radiation spectrum of the resulting plasma, in order to determine the chemical composition of the rock. Source: NASA / JPL.

For the first time, boron was found on Mars, a discovery that strengthens the possibility that life existed on it in the past

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Jim Bridenstine. Source: United States Congress.

Who is Jim Bridenstine, Trump's nominee for the next NASA administrator?

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SpaceX's futuristic space suit is revealed

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"Selfie" photo taken by Curiosity. In the background you can see Mount Sharp which stands in the center of Gale Crater, and Curiosity is currently climbing to its upper layers. To take selfies, Curiosity uses a camera mounted on its robotic arm, and takes pictures of itself from many angles. The images are then edited into a single image in Photoshop. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.

Five years since Curiosity landed on Mars

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Simulation of a moon around an extrasolar planet. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Was a moon discovered outside the solar system for the first time?

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Illustration: Olga Prilipko Huber / Brown University.

New research has revealed that the depths of the moon are rich in water

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The simulation released by SpaceX shows a Dragon 2 spacecraft landing on Mars. Source: Spice X.

Elon Musk: The Dragon 2 spacecraft will not be able to make a motorized landing

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The Great Red Spot, in a processed image of Juno. Source: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Jason Major.

Juno passed over Jupiter's Great Red Spot for the first time

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The Long March 5 launcher takes off after the launch at the Wenchang Spaceport on Hainan Island in China, yesterday at 14:23 (Israel time). Source: Xinhua.

The launch of the Chinese Long March 5 missile failed

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Trump signs the presidential order last Friday. Photo: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani.

Trump signed an order resurrecting the National Space Council

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The first launch in the series of close launches carried out by SpaceX, which was held on Friday. Source: SpaceX.

SpaceX launched two rockets in three days

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A new catalog based on Kepler space telescope data has found 219 additional planet candidates. Of these, 10 Earth-like planets orbit their star in the "seat zone," one that is at a distance that allows liquid water to exist on the surface. Illustration: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

The Kepler space telescope found 219 more planets and revealed a clear gap between terrestrial planets and mini-Neptunes

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"Swiss cheese" holes in the south pole of Mars. The white substance in the picture is dry ice - made of carbon dioxide. The depressions in the dry ice layer reach a depth of only 10 meters. They are formed in the red summer season, when the sun's rays strike at a low angle in the polar region, and reach mainly the steep walls of the depressions - which encourages development laterally rather than in depth. The photograph, in its full resolution, has a resolution of 50 centimeters per pixel. Taken on March 25, 2017 by NASA's Mars orbiter MRO. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona.

Why does part of the south pole of Mars look like Swiss cheese?

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NASA's new team of astronauts. Left to right - Zeena Cardiman, Jasmin Hamadi, Johnny Kim, Frank Rubio, Matthew Dominick, Warren Hoburg, Rob Collin, Kayla Barron, Bob Haynes, Raja Chari , Laurel O'Hara and Jessica Watkins.Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz.

Martian generation? NASA unveils a group of 12 new astronauts

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The Dragon spacecraft that was launched today, on its first mission to the space station in September 2014, in a photo from the space station itself. Source: NASA.

SpaceX launched a used spacecraft to the space station for the first time

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