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Helen Sharman: First British astronaut speaks out on science, climate

Space

Helen Sharman: First British astronaut speaks out on science, climate

Nearly 30 years after her historic spaceflight, we meet with the first British astronaut to talk about the future of space travel, global warming and Brexit

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image of the Earth

Environment

European satellite will reveal Earth's atmosphere in unrivalled detail

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Ad Astra: Pirates and space monkeys can't save dull space psychodrama

Space

Ad Astra: Pirates and space monkeys can't save dull space psychodrama

Culture

What is space-time? The true origins of the fabric of reality

Physics

What is space-time? The true origins of the fabric of reality

Features

India's Vikram moon lander appears to have crashed on the moon

Space

India's Vikram moon lander appears to have crashed on the moon

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How a Soviet space station became a symbol of space cooperation

Space

How a Soviet space station became a symbol of space cooperation

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Einstein’s black holes are not the black holes we see in reality

Space

Einstein’s black holes are not the black holes we see in reality

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Satellite above Earth

Space

SpaceX satellite near miss shows need for rules of the road in space

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Jon Spooner (left) meets Apollo astronaut Al Worden in the Space Shed

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Come down to 51¶¯Âþ Live 2019 at London's ExCel today

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Artist's impression of a gas giant planet and its moon

Space

We may have seen signs of an exomoon spewing out volcanic gas

Astronomers have spotted a plume of sodium near a distant planet. The gas is so far from the surface that they say it must have come from a volcanic exomoon

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From Prey to Observation: Why games set on space stations are a thrill

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Physics

LIGO may have seen its first black hole and neutron star collision

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Space

A massive collision may have made Jupiter's core so weird

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Radioactive dust in Antarctic ice could help map interstellar clouds

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