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Mars has taken big bites out of the Curiosity rover's wheels

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Mars has taken big bites out of the Curiosity rover's wheels

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NASA's Curiosity rover has left plenty of marks on Mars over the past nine-plus years, and the Red Planet is returning the favor.

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NASA picks Lockheed Martin to build rocket to carry Mars samples back to Earth

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NASA has selected the aerospace company Lockheed Martin to build the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), a small rocket that will launch pristine Red Planet samples back toward Earth a decade or so from now.

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Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 19th flight after historic Red Planet weather delay

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The dust storm couldn't keep NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity grounded forever. The 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity aced a 100-second sortie on Tuesday (Feb. 8), its 19th Red Planet flight overall but its first since Dec. 15.

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Spaceflight

India to attempt its next moon landing with Chandrayaan 3 launch in August

Assembly of the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter vehicle (Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images)

India plans to give landing on the moon a second try with its Chandrayaan 3 mission, which is now targeted to launch in August.

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Russia wants to speed up space station cargo deliveries with shorter, one-orbit flights

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Roscosmos wants to speed up its deliveries to the International Space Station, cutting cargo ship missions to just about 2 hours.

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Astra rocket aborts 1st Florida launch attempt at last second (video)

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Astra came tantalizingly close today (Feb. 7) to its first-ever launch of operational satellites, but liftoff remains elusive.

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Science & Astronomy

The chances of early life on Mars faced a meteorite problem

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Frequent meteor collisions occurred on the Red Planet for 30 million more years than thought, a new study suggests.

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Could the moon ever be pushed from orbit like in 'Moonfall'?

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The moon has been Earth's close companion for billions of years, and while our view of its shape and size varies somewhat as it orbits our planet, it remains a constant presence in the sky. But could that change?

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Greenland lost enough ice in last 2 decades to cover entire US in 1.5 feet of water

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The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet, and the toll on Greenland's massive ice sheet is becoming achingly clear.

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SpaceX

A rogue rocket is on course to crash into the moon. It won't be the first.

(SpaceX)

In a few weeks' time, a rocket launched in 2015 is expected to crash into the moon. The fast-moving piece of space junk is the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which hoisted the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite off our planet. It has been chaotically looping around Earth and the moon ever since.

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SpaceX and NASA eye Dragon parachute issue ahead of next astronaut launch

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The parachute system on SpaceX's Dragon capsule hasn't behaved exactly as expected recently, and NASA and SpaceX want to know why.

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Skywatching

The 'morning star' Venus returns to the dawn sky

(SkySafari/Starry Night)

The planet Venus has returned to the early morning sky and has established itself as a dazzling morning lantern, emerging into view from beyond the east-southeast horizon before 5 a.m. local standard time.

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Entertainment

The best sci-fi movies and TV shows to stream on Netflix in February

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So that you don't have to spend hours searching through thousands of movies, some good, some bad and everything in-between, we've compiled a list of the best science-fiction movies and television shows currently on Netflix.

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The best sci-fi movies and TV shows to stream on Amazon Prime in February

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A veritable treasure trove of sci-fi is available to watch on Amazon Prime; some free and more available if you feel like paying a little bit extra. So settle back and soak up some superb sci-fi from the safety of your sofa.

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