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Perseid meteor shower

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Perseid meteor shower

The Perseid meteor shower rips through the Earth’s atmosphere in August every year
Meteor Crater, Arizona

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The space-junk calamity that could cut us off from the cosmos

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Teasel Muir-Harmony

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Apollo collection curator on what Neil Armstrong took to the moon

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The solar system has too many moons – it's time for a cull

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The solar system has too many moons – it's time for a cull

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Blue Moon

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Blue Origin assembles space industry dream team to build moon lander

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Moving to Mars – this show will help you become a real Martian

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Moving to Mars – this show will help you become a real Martian

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NASA engineer's 'helical engine' may violate the laws of physics

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NASA engineer's 'helical engine' may violate the laws of physics

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Live: UK's first space rover, Tim Peake and the real life rocket man

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Live: UK's first space rover, Tim Peake and the real life rocket man

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Born in the big bang: How ancient black holes could save cosmology

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Born in the big bang: How ancient black holes could save cosmology

Exotic primordial black holes born in the moments after the universe began could be the key to solving some of cosmology’s biggest problems… if only we can find them.

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Maggie Aderin-Pocock on space travel and humanity's future

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UK space academy boss Anu Ojha on what finding aliens might mean

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We can send a probe to interstellar comet Borisov – but not until 2030

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We've had our best glimpse of a web of matter that spans the universe

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