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In 1998, NASA and ESA engineers were tasked with a particularly dizzying challenge: fix a billion-dollar satellite that’s spinning out of control! 

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If you want to travel the universe, you have to figure out how to get your spaceship from point A to point B in one piece. The good news is we’ve discovered a lot of different ways to get around space!

New studies show that a perfect balance of radioactive elements might be the key to a planet being habitable! And, we may have a better sense of how Mars is losing its water.

While studying intergalactic gas, astrophysicist and Kavli Prize winner Andrew Fabian detected the deepest sound ever recorded in the universe and tracked down its origin: a highly pressurized black hole! 

We have new insights into the bizarre nature of lava planets! Plus, the icy moon Europa may yet reveal some of her salty secrets.

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