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By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that ...
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An international team of scientists has examined dust grains gathered by the NASA Stardust spacecraft and brought back to Earth – and has discovered that they originated in the interstellar dust ...
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