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Virgin Orbit Boeing 747 takes first flight with rocket attached (photos)

The first time a Boeing 747 has ever carried a rocket in flight

NASA chooses the landing site for its Mars 2020 rover mission

The rover will be looking for signs of habitable conditions and past microbial life

Arecibo Message: How researchers sent the first interstellar radio message and why they did it (video-photos)

Google Doodle honours the 44th anniversary of the Arecibo Message

NASA drone ditches chase plane in milestone flight

This was the first flight of a remotely-piloted aircraft with airborne detect and avoid technology capable of meeting all of the FAA's "see and avoid" rules

Astronomers suggest shooting a laser into space to attract aliens to Earth like a “porch light”

Existing technology could be used to produce an infrared beam bright enough to be spotted by intelligent alien civilizations

Oumuamua: Asteroid that flew past Earth could have been a spacecraft sailing past us, Harvard scientists suggest

"A more exotic scenario is that 'Oumuamua' may be a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilization"

13.5 billion year old star was born just after the Big Bang and it’s in our neighborhood

By comparison, the Sun is a spry youngster that's about 100,000 generations further down the family tree

The Milky Way has a gigantic skeleton in its closet!

"The Milky Way is a cannibal"

NASA will keep trying to revive the silent Mars rover Opportunity through January

"NASA will continue its current strategy for attempting to make contact with the Opportunity rover for the foreseeable future"

Sponges from Mars? Study suggests water on the red planet could support life

Although the current strategy is to search for signs of ancient life on Mars, current life should be detectable too if present

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