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An artist's impression of Japan’s Hayabusa2 space mission touching down on the surface of the asteroid 1998 KY26.
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Cruising with an asteroid

Hayabusa2 – to land or not to land? When the Sun’s family formed 4½ billion years ago, there was a lot of extra material remaining….

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”Mountain” to the stars

The Webb Space Telescope peers at hotbed of massive star birth What do a kind of “crustacean,” an “arachnid” (both arthropods), and the James Webb…

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On a future Mars?

Small robot ”bees” may pollinate Martian plants. Many of us have seen the 2015 epic science fiction film, “The Martian.” An astronaut, played by actor…

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Webb tries to untie a knotty problem

An unusual planetary nebula may be hiding more than we can see The discoverer of Uranus, William Herschel (1738–1822), was interested in whatever kinds of…