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China's space station now has insects, weeds and rice on board

The Tiangong-2 space station includes experiments in growing thale cress, an edible weed and rice in microgravity

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The inventions of our lifetime, picked by the people who know

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Spacecraft could taste Europa's sea by sampling its atmosphere

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Monday's bright supermoon will be closest to Earth in 68 years

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Monday's bright supermoon will be closest to Earth in 68 years

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Beagle Mars probe probably didn’t crash, new analysis shows

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I watched a rover search for ancient life on Mars – I mean, Utah

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I watched a rover search for ancient life on Mars – I mean, Utah

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A pair of planets passing in from of their star

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Exoplanet hunters are missing 75 per cent of two-star worlds

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Mickey Mouse ears may explain universe’s biggest explosions

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Mickey Mouse ears may explain universe’s biggest explosions

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China's Long March 5 heavy-lift rocket takes first flight

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China's Long March 5 heavy-lift rocket takes first flight

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Mars orbiter spots new crater that may be ExoMars's lost lander

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Mars orbiter spots new crater that may be ExoMars's lost lander

The lander may have turned off its thrusters too early, meaning it smacked into the ground at high speed with full fuel tanks - and may have exploded

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Fears grow that ExoMars lander lost in final minute of descent

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Pluto may sport clouds of poisonous acid and flammable gases

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Get ready for ESA's white-knuckle descent to the Red Planet

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ExoMars spacecraft splits in two to explore Mars surface and air

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