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From Africa to the stars: Why Ethiopia needs a space programme

Space

From Africa to the stars: Why Ethiopia needs a space programme

We will see an Ethiopian astronaut in my lifetime, says Solomon Belay Tessema, the man behind the country's space mission

Opinion

We've found the brightest ever supernova but can't explain it

Space

We've found the brightest ever supernova but can't explain it

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Famous Wow! signal might have been from comets, not aliens

Space

Famous Wow! signal might have been from comets, not aliens

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Migrating giant planets might eat their own life-friendly moons

Space

Migrating giant planets might eat their own life-friendly moons

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Giant galaxy caught tearing apart its little neighbour

Space

Giant galaxy caught tearing apart its little neighbour

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As lights block out the night sky, help measure the damage

Space

As lights block out the night sky, help measure the damage

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First glimpse of lost library of Elizabethan polymath John Dee

Physics

First glimpse of lost library of Elizabethan polymath John Dee

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<em>Star Wars</em> universe passes real-world test for alien head count

Life

Star Wars universe passes real-world test for alien head count

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Public vote renames planets after gods, monsters and scientists

Space

Public vote renames planets after gods, monsters and scientists

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Two missions face off to seek life in icy seas of Enceladus

Life

Two missions face off to seek life in icy seas of Enceladus

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been sampling the plumes on Saturn's moon for a decade, with no sign of microbes. Two proposed missions hope to change that

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Space

Stargazing through the bottom of a glass

Features

Needle formation lets space rubble sneak up on us

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Space

Prodigal gas cloud was born in Milky Way and is crashing back in

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Space

Little galaxy's own stars cast 95 per cent of its oxygen away

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