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A 300-kilometre space rock has vanished since we saw it in 1995

Space

A 300-kilometre space rock has vanished since we saw it in 1995

Don’t feel so bad for losing your keys. Astronomers somehow lost a huge space rock first seen 22 years ago – and it’s far from the first cosmic object to go missing

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The 5 biggest discoveries from the hunt for gravitational waves

Space

The 5 biggest discoveries from the hunt for gravitational waves

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Space

Astronaut wee could show us how the plumes on Enceladus work

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A gaggle of 7 moons keep Saturn’s rings from breaking apart

Space

A gaggle of 7 moons keep Saturn’s rings from breaking apart

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Distant dwarf planet near Pluto has a ring that no one expected

Space

Distant dwarf planet near Pluto has a ring that no one expected

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A moon base

Space

It was always crazy to shoot for Mars before colonising the moon

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flying bird

Technology

Drone designers accidentally explain colour of albatross wings

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Elon Musk’s new plans for a moon base and a Mars mission by 2022

Space

Elon Musk’s new plans for a moon base and a Mars mission by 2022

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Flying and rolling drone will map underground mines on its own

Technology

Flying and rolling drone will map underground mines on its own

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Ley

Space

Rocket man: Willy Ley's fervour helped put men on the moon

A biography of the “prophet of the space age” shows what rocketry owes to Willy Ley’s preaching through TV, radio and printed media, and even via toy firms

Culture

Space

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zooms by Earth on its way to an asteroid

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Space

Infamous three-body problem has over a thousand new solutions

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Space

Brown dwarfs have strong magnetic fields just like real stars

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Space

Cassini takes last look at the ring patterns made by mini moons

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