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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has some rocks stuck in its throat. Perseverance drilled and collected its sixth Red Planet rock sample late last month, but the car-sized rover hasn't been able to seal up the titanium tube containing the material yet.
China's Yutu 2 rover has reached the so-called "mystery hut" on the far side of the moon that attracted widespread attention last month - but don't get too excited.
NASA's newest space observatory, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, is set to begin spying on some of the universe's most dramatic objects - black holes and neutron stars.
China's "artificial sun" has set a new world record after superheating a loop of plasma to temperatures five times hotter than the sun for more than 17 minutes.
A reboot of Alien vs. Predator, one of the most profitable transmedia sci-fi crossovers ever, might just be the next big film that Disney is looking for.
