[NEWS] Five space science links: Moon, Mars, Planet Nine, 'Oumuamua, dark matter

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• This Universe Today article takes a look at the idea of building basic installations, the most ambitious like the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, on the Moon.


• Scientific American reports that NASA is preparing to declare the mission of the Mars Opportunity rover, active for 15 years, at an end.


• Popular Science looks at the likely procedures by which Planet Nine, if found, would be given a name.


• Universe Today considers the possibility that 'Oumuamua might be part of the debris cloud of a disintegrated interstellar comet.


• Scientific American notes the important discovery of two nearby galaxies apparently lacking in dark matter.