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NASA is looking for a crew to live inside a simulated Martian habitat

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New images share unprecedented view of how Odysseus spacecraft landed on the moon

CNN  —  Outstanding new pictures from the Odysseus mission seize the spacecraft

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Peculiar fossil reveals oldest toothless bird from 120 million years ago

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Mary Cleave, the first woman to fly on NASA’s space shuttle after Challenger disaster, dies at 76

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship rocket and spacecraft lost in second test flight

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Scientists create chimeric monkey with two sets of DNA

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Shenzhou-17 launch: China has sent its youngest-ever astronaut crew to the Tiangong space station

Gobi Desert, China CNN  —  When China’s first astronaut Yang Liwei blasted

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People on 4 continents can look up to see ‘a bite taken out of’ the moon this weekend

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Quartz crystals detected swirling in atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-17b

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Ursid meteor shower peaks this week

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