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Barry Petchesky

People watch the landing of NASA's InSight spacecraft on the planet Mars on television screens at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California on November 26, 2018. - Cheers and applause erupted at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a $993 million unmanned lander, called InSight, touched down on the Red Planet and managed to send back its first picture. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Science

Goodbye To InSight, The Lander That Uncovered Mars’s Innermost Secrets

Artemis Is Our Ticket Out Of Here

The Most Exciting Thing In Science Is When We Find Out We Were Wrong

Justin Ellis

Life's Rich Pageant

Humanity Can, Should, And Must Keep Hucking Shit Against The Stars

Rays Week

The Universe Came To Us

Patrick Redford

Takip cihazı sayesinde kıyıdan yaklaşık 8 kilometre açıkta bulunan kebap, işletmeci Yaşar Aydın ve ekibi tarafından alınıp kentteki restorana getirildi. ( Yaşar Aydın - Anadolu Ajansı )

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The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is Stratosphere Kebab

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Chris Thompson

When The International Space Station Dies, We’ll Lose More Than A Big Hunk Of Metal

Ganymede Global Geologic Map and Global Image Mosaic

NASA Would Like You To Check Out These Spooky Space Noises

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Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos talks about his 'Blue Origin Space Program' during a keynote session at the Amazon Re:MARS conference on robotics and artificial intelligence at the Aria Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 6, 2019. (Photo by Mark RALSTON / AFP) (Photo by MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

You Call This Going To Space, Jeff Bezos?

A Long March 5 rocket carrying China's Chang'e-5 lunar probe launches from the Wenchang Space Center on China's southern Hainan Island on November 24, 2020, on a mission to bring back lunar rocks, the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from the moon in four decades. - (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Funbag

You Will Never Go To Space

On-the-ground footage shows a cable snapping, sending the platform crashing to the ground.

New Videos Show The Dramatic Collapse Of The Arecibo Telescope

This aerial view shows a hole in the dish panels of the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, on November 19, 2020. - The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced on November 19, 2020, it will decommission the radio telescope following two cable breaks in recent months which have brought the structure to near collapse. (Photo by Ricardo ARDUENGO / AFP) (Photo by RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP via Getty Images)

Arecibo Goes Dark

A view of the asteroid Bennu, from the camera of OSIRIS-REx.

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