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For those of you who missed them, here are the 10 most important science news and announcements of the week

The insanely accurate space telescope is now just a concept, here's hoping it will soon be approved for construction

The probe left our planet back in 2006, has since covered a distance of about 3 billion miles (4.8 billion kilometers)

The idea is to use such a rotorcraft to look over slopes, hills and even rocks that regular rovers can't see beyond

Working together, NASA and Microsoft scientists will develop a 3D simulation of the Martian environment

The rocks were photographed by the Curiosity rover, some say they prove an entire civilization once thrived on Mars

The Beagle 2 lander reached the surface of the Red Planet on December 25, 2003, was never seen or heard from since

The image was beamed to Earth by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, now traveling through space towards the dwarf planet

The Mars One project founder uses Ubuntu

The satellite will map water hidden in the top 2 inches (5 centimeters) of our planet's soils, frozen and thawed lands

The Beagle 2 lander reached the Red Planet on December 25, 2003, researchers lost contact with it the very same day

NASA says Earth's average surface temperature has upped by 0.8 degrees Celsius (1.4 degrees Fahrenheit) since 1880

This week, the Curiosity rover will merely prick the rock in an attempt to determine whether deep drilling is feasible

Astronomers say the space rock, dubbed 2004 BL86, is estimated to measure about 0.5 kilometers (0.3 miles) across

Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation, can upset GPS and communications signals on Earth when too intense

The image was obtained with the help of the Landsat 8 satellite, NASA scientists released it just a few days ago

Astronomers say evidence indicates each of these two colliding galaxies hosts a supermassive black hole at its core