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The aerospace giant says it can revive Mars Sample Return with a leaner, lower-cost approach drawing on proven designs.

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The smoking gun of the creation of lithium in explosions on white dwarf stars may have been found, in a spike of gamma rays ...

Canada doesn't have a long history of rocket launches, but that may be about to change.

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