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  • NASA is bringing rocks back from Mars, but what if those samples contain alien life?
  • NASA advisers call for a visit to Uranus, plus more science during moon landings
  • The James Webb Space Telescope is working as well as astronomers dreamed it would
  • Who gets to use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope? Astronomers work to fight bias
  • Christmas Eve telescope launch has astronomers hoping for good tidings of great joy
  • Astronomers find a new planet that's mostly made of iron
  • Ancient footprints mistakenly attributed to bears were made by early humans
  • In a first test of its planetary defense efforts, NASA's going to shove an asteroid
  • The biggest whales can eat the equivalent of 80,000 Big Macs in one day
  • If NASA green lights this interstellar mission, it could last 100 years