Science and reality
Phobos is gradually spiraling in closer to Mars, getting ready to self-destruct. And when it does, its remains will give the red planet a brand-new ring.
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Space photos of the week, November 15–21.
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NASA just gave two US universities a robot each. Their mission: Get this thing to move like a human.
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Congress just passed a bill giving more leeway to the burgeoning space industry.
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Astronomers deduced that WT1190F was a piece of rocket by looking at orbital wobbles and telescopic flickers.
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Space photos of the week, November 8–15.
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New Horizons found the dwarf planet's very own Mordor.
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Space photos of the week, November 1–7.
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MAVEN is a spacecraft on a mission to find out what happened to the red planet's lost water, atmosphere, and magnetic field.
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By viewing the sun in extreme ultraviolet light, the Solar Dynamics Observatory captures the star's invisible explosions.
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