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Space

NASA gets in touch with spacecraft two years after it vanished

The twin STEREO spacecraft went missing while testing a system that would allow it to fly behind the sun

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Contrails from planes

Earth

Chemtrails conspiracy theory gets put to the ultimate test

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China's quantum communications satellite launches

Space

China launches world's first quantum communications satellite

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A drone hovers in a forest

Technology

Expensive drones take flying lessons from cheaper stunt doubles

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Astronauts prepare for Mars mission at the bottom of the sea

Space

Astronauts prepare for Mars mission at the bottom of the sea

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Flying-saucer-like craft swoops over rocky terrain with Saturn-like world on the horizon

Space

Six science fiction novels you should be reading

Culture

Astronauts on the International Space Station with many flags on panel behind them

Space

No more space race rhetoric: it's not just about the US any more

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The Red Planet

Space

Next-gen Mars orbiters to help human missions become more real

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tim peake smiling, and reclining in microgravity presumably on the ISS

Space

Tim Peake: Robots won’t replace me for 100 years

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Resurrected radio dish could guide GPS on the moon

Space

Resurrected radio dish could guide GPS on the moon

Two spaceflight companies want guide satellites in lunar orbit using the giant satellite dish that brought Britain its first TV images

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Technology

Missing the natural world? Just add multimedia

Culture

NASA’s Juno probe enters near-perfect orbit around Jupiter

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Space

NASA approves new far-flung destination for Pluto space probe

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Space

Up close with the awesome power of NASA's biggest ever rocket

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