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The New Horizons probe is awake and ready for its next flyby

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The New Horizons probe is awake and ready for its next flyby

For the last 6 months, the New Horizons spacecraft that flew past Pluto in 2015 has been in hibernation, hurtling towards a distant rock – it has just woken up

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Astronauts in space

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Cosmic cooperation is just what space exploration needs

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Night fishing with light-up lures that can be seen from space

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Night fishing with light-up lures that can be seen from space

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‘Impossible’ EM drive doesn’t seem to work after all

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‘Impossible’ EM drive doesn’t seem to work after all

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China launched a satellite to help explore the moon’s far side

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China launched a satellite to help explore the moon’s far side

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Stunning first image sent back by NASA’s planet-hunter satellite

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Stunning first image sent back by NASA’s planet-hunter satellite

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ESA eyes Venus mission or space telescope to launch by 2030

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ESA eyes Venus mission or space telescope to launch by 2030

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NASA sent a robot to the Red Planet to listen for marsquakes

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NASA sent a robot to the Red Planet to listen for marsquakes

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Our understanding of the universe's expansion is really wrong

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Our understanding of the universe's expansion is really wrong

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Toughest ever heat shields made of springy sponge-like stuff

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Toughest ever heat shields made of springy sponge-like stuff

Chinese scientists have developed a compressible aerogel that has shown in early heat shield tests to be 5 times more resilient than previous materials

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NASA has launched a new space telescope to hunt for exoplanets

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The neon swirls that show how a map of our galaxy is made

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Lunar X Prize to put a rover on the moon has been resurrected

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Astronauts could 3D print tools from their own processed faeces

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