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Topic: Space (page 9)

A technical drawing is seen on screen as Systems Engineers Christopher Murray (R) works at his console at the Webb Mission Office ahead of the James Web Space Telescopes launch at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 3, 2021. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

The James Webb telescope's big gamble

The James Webb Space Telescope hovering over Earth, concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Meet Hubble's ambitious successor

Asteroid and swarm of meteorites flying towards Earth (Getty Images/Mike Mareen)

NASA's asteroid deflection spacecraft

Perseverance's Selfie with Ingenuity (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

Mars' weird geology vexes Perseverance

Perseverance rover on Mars (NASA)

Mystery of the missing Mars rock solved

This mosaic of Bennu was created using observations made by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that was in close proximity to the asteroid for over two years. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona)

Humanity is ready to deflect asteroids

NASA's Perseverance (Mars 2020) stores rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet's surface for future missions to retrieve in the area known as Jezero crater on the planet Mars. (NASA/Getty Images)

Martian mystery of the missing rocks

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying 60 Starlink satellites on November 11, 2019 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Starlink constellation will eventually consist of thousands of satellites designed to provide world wide high-speed internet service. (Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

A new space treaty for the 21st century

Ramin Skibba - Undark

Jeff Bezos speaks about his flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepard into space during a press conference on July 20, 2021 in Van Horn, Texas. Mr. Bezos and the crew that flew with him were the first human spaceflight for the company. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The psychology of megalomania

Elon Musk, Richard Benson, Jeff Bezos, and a rocket launch (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

No, billionaires won't "escape" to space

Radio transmission to the Milky way galaxy and star dusts in deep space (Getty Images)

No more "mystery of missing matter"

Emmanuel Fonseca - The Conversation

A volcano named Sapas Mons dominates this computer-generated view of the surface of Venus. (NASA/JP)

NASA returns to Venus

Paul K. Byrne - The Conversation

CEO and founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Elon who? Jeff Bezos is going to space

Communications satellite orbiting Earth (Getty Images)

Space pollution is a big problem

Timiebi Aganaba - The Conversation

Massive black holes in nebula (Getty Images/ sakkmesterke)

Dark matter's "tethers" between galaxies

Milky Way Galaxy (Getty Images)

Milky Way matured earlier, study says

A NASA image of one of the Voyager space probes. Voyager 1 and its identical sister craft Voyager 2 were launched in 1977 to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space. (NASA/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Voyager 1 hears the "hum" of universe

An illustration of NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter flying on Mars (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Ingenuity keeps breaking records

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and the SpaceX launch (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Musk’s and Bezos’s great escape

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org

Biospherian 2nd crew (Courtesy of Institute of Ecotechnics)

The inside story of Biosphere 2

In this concept illustration provided by NASA, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter stands on the Red Planet's surface. (Photo illustration by NASA via Getty Images)

Ingenuity preps for takeoff on Mars

Asteroid passing earth (Getty Images)

A massive asteroid grazes Earth

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission readies itself to touch the surface of asteroid Bennu. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona)

NASA craft grabs rocks from asteroid

Young amateur astronomer on a school yard in Lichtenberg watching the moon with a telescope (Rolf Schulten/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

The latest quarantine escape? Stargazing

Ashlie D. Stevens

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