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So a helicopter flew on Mars for the first time. A space physicist explains why that’s such a big deal

Apes, robots and men: the life and death of the first space chimp

Perseverance: the Mars rover searching for ancient life, and the Aussie scientists who helped build it

Australia has long valued an outer space shared by all. Mining profits could change this

Red planet rumbles: NASA’s recordings of ‘marsquakes’ let us listen to the martian heartbeat

An asteroid just buzzed past Earth, and we barely noticed in time

NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft TESS is now on its mission to search for new worlds

From rocket launches to a crashing space station, we’re in for a huge year in space