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  A mystery rocket crashed into moon and left a 'double crater,' NASA says

  Business Insider - Paola Rosa-Aquino

  Listen to The Refresh: Insider's real-time news brief. NASA has spotted the crash site of a mystery rocket that slammed into the far side of the moon in March, leaving behind a double crater. New images taken May 25 and shared by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter on June 24 showed the unusual …

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  NASA's Voyager probes are slowly shutting down. They launched in 1977 and made it deeper into space than anything since

  Business Insider - Marianne Guenot

  Listen to The Refresh: Insider's real-time news podcast. The epic interstellar journeys of NASA's acclaimed Voyager probes are due to come to an end as the agency continues to switch off their systems, Scientific American reported. The probes launched 45 years ago, in 1977, and have pushed the …

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  Stunning images from retired space telescopes show how galaxies are defined by the dust between stars

  Business Insider - Paola Rosa-Aquino

  The universe is full of cosmic dust, and astronomers are still uncovering the role it plays in the cosmos. Now, researchers have combined data from four retired missions to show how dust clouds fill the space between stars in galaxies, in new images shared by NASA on Thursday. Researchers used …

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  NASA's Perseverance rover captured images of its own litter, and it shows how Mars is becoming a junkyard

  Business Insider - Paola Rosa-Aquino

  The Perseverance rover has been searching the dusty and rocky landscape of Mars' Jezero Crater for signs of life since it landed last year. But now, the rover has spotted human garbage on the surface of the red planet. On Tuesday, the Perseverance team shared on Twitter that they'd spotted what …

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  The Perseverance rover has a pet rock. NASA says it's breaking hitchhiking records.

  Business Insider - Paola Rosa-Aquino

  Listen to The Refresh: Insider's real-time news brief. Since at least early February, NASA's Perseverance rover has had a rock clinging to its front left wheel. While other Martian rocks have previously latched onto rovers for weeks at a time, this particular rock has stuck around for months — …

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  NASA skywatcher says a brand-new 'meteor storm' from a shattered comet might blaze across night skies next week

  Business Insider - Paola Rosa-Aquino

  North America might be treated to a starry spectacle late Monday night into Tuesday morning, as the Earth passes through the remnants of a defunct comet. Experts say the meteor shower, known as the Tau Herculids, has the potential to become a rare "meteor storm" — producing an onslaught of at least …