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The most striking images from this week's top stories

Here is our round-up of the week's biggest news stories as captured through the lens' of photographers around the world.

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'Iconic!': NASA's Perseverance sends first pictures after Mars landing

The American space agency promises more photos in the next few days and possibly also an audio recording of the historic descent.

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"Touchdown confirmed!" - Perseverance lands on Mars

The NASA rover is there as part of a mission to uncover signs of life and collect samples of rock

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Mars rover sends its first surface images after historic landing

The Perseverance rover arrived on Mars on Thursday as part of a mission to uncover signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock

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What links a Bosnian village and NASA's historic bid to land on Mars?

Villagers in Bosnia will be glued to their screens on Thursday to see if NASA can land one of its rovers on Mars. Here's why.

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Has a 50-year mystery about playing golf on the moon now been solved?

US astronaut Alan P. Shepard Jr became the first person to hit a golf ball on the moon. But there has been a 50-year-old mystery over how far it travelled. Until perhaps now....

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NASA 'megarocket' test aborted after computers shut down engine

A test of NASA's new SLS megarocket was aborted after computers automatically shut down engines after a little over a minute

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In pictures: NASA's top Earth photographs of 2020

Here's a selection of the best photographs of our planet from 2020, taken by astronauts at the International Space Station.

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First lunar soil samples collected in 44 years arrive in Beijing

Chinese scientists have laid their hands on a very precious container. Inside are the first samples of soil taken from the surface of the moon in 44 years.

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NASA recruits companies to collect moon rock for as little as $1

The contracts are primarily intended to set a legal precedent for the exploitation of extraterrestrial resources by the private sector going forward.

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US-European ocean monitoring satellite launches into orbit

Sea-surface heights are affected by heating and cooling of water, allowing scientist to use the altimeter data to detect such weather-influencing conditions as the warm El Nino and the cool La Nina.

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SpaceX capsule with 4 astronauts reaches space station

The Dragon capsule pulled up and docked late Monday night, following a 27-hour, completely automated flight from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

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NASA launches new satellite to monitor rising sea levels

The spacecraft is the latest initiative by the space agency to gather data about changing sea levels.

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NASA spacecraft leaking asteroid samples into space

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft has collected too much material from the asteroid Bennu, millions of miles from Earth, and it is now spilling its contents into space.

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Astronaut and cosmonauts return after mission launched during pandemic

An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts returned to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) after a six-month mission in space, launched in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak.

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Spacecraft touches asteroid's surface in mission to grab rock sample

Flight controllers declare success in NASA mission to collect material from an asteroid 200 million miles from planet Earth using the Osiris-Rex spacecraft

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‘How’s the signal up there?’: Nokia to bring 4G to the moon

Nokia says it will build a 4G communications system for the moon, as part of NASA’s plan to establish a long-term human presence there

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Chief astronaut swaps space trip for daughter's wedding

Veteran astronaut Christopher Ferguson has swapped a trip to space to make sure he can make his daughter's wedding

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Potty training: NASA tests new $23M titanium space toilet

NASA is set to launch a new space toilet to the International Space Station for testing.

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Moon rush: NASA looking for companies to help mine the lunar surface

The American space agency says it will pay for moon dust and rocks samples, but not for the trips. It hopes they will be collected by 2024.