Another giant leap
The story of a group of women who worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the early days of rocketry draws both praise and criticism from Lisa Ruth Rand
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See like a solar system
Robert P Crease discusses what the science of the solar system teaches us about perception
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Thirty Meter Telescope may not be built in Hawaii, say astronomers
Officials will decide early next year whether to build the protest-hit telescope at new site
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NASA’s Juno craft arrives at Jupiter
$1.1bn mission will study the origin and inner structure of the largest planet in our solar system
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NASA hits back at millionaire in asteroid spat
Nathan Myhrvold at loggerheads with astrophysicists over asteroid analysis
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Chiral molecules spotted in interstellar cloud
Possible precursors of life detected outside of the solar system for the first time
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Widening our view of the universe: NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope
NASA is designing an ambitious near-infrared space observatory with a field of view up to 200 times greater than that of Hubble
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What can we learn from comets?
These "dirty snowballs" can teach us about the history of our solar system
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Mission to Mars launches in search of signs of life
The Trace Gas Orbiter will study the red planet's atmosphere and test landing technologies
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Where to look for signals from alien astronomers with a good view of Earth
Zoning in on a narrow band of sky where Earth's transits across the Sun can be detected
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