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A six-metre tall engineering model of the BepiColombo spacecraft is unveiled at the Science Museum in London during a media preview for its new display Mission to Mercury: BepiColombo. (Photo by Kirsty O'Connor/PA Images via Getty Images)

Forbes: ESA’s BepiColombo orbiters fire up instruments on first Mercury flyby

The Chang'e 5 return capsule at its landing site in Inner Mongolia, China, on Dec. 17, 2020. (Image credit: CNSA)

Space.com: Moon rocks brought to Earth by Chinese mission fill key gaps in solar system history

Nothing like Chang'e-5 had been tried since the Soviet Luna-24 mission in 1976 (Photo: CNSA)

BBC: China's Moon mission returned youngest ever lavas

Chang’e-5 samples reveal key age of moon rocks

PBS: Bob Criss discusses urban flooding on Donnybrook Next Up

Arvidson in lab meeting

St. Louis Public Radio: Wash U scientists to continue Mars research with $11.8 million NASA contract renewal

The surface of Venus, shown here using radar data from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft, remains mostly unexplored. Photo by NASA, JPL

National Geographic: Hellish Venus poses many mysteries. New spacecraft aim to solve them.

Two young Hispanic women dancing in traditional dresses. Photo by sydney Rae on Unsplash.

Celebrating National Hispanic American Heritage Month 2021

A close-up of Mars taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. New research suggests that the red planet may be too small to have ever had large amounts of surface water.

NPR: Mars had liquid water on its surface. Here's why scientists think it vanished.

Forbes: Martian blues: Did planet's size affect its ability to hold onto water?

$11.8 million award renews planetary geosciences data effort

Time: Mars was always destined to die