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Orbital ATK's Cygnus cargo craft is released by the International Space Station's Canadarm2 robotic arm

Space

Watch a Cygnus spacecraft burn up as it re-enters the atmosphere

Researchers chased an uncrewed Cygnus spacecraft in an aeroplane in order to watch its fiery re-entry and destruction. The view was spectacular

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Rip up the rule book and let NASA's Mars rover check 'life' zone

Life

Rip up the rule book and let NASA's Mars rover check 'life' zone

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china rocket launch

Space

China plans for space station with most powerful rocket launch

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I tried out being a space trucker in a Dream Chaser mini-shuttle

Space

I tried out being a space trucker in a Dream Chaser mini-shuttle

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Hubble spots a new long-lived storm raging on Neptune

Space

Hubble spots a new long-lived storm raging on Neptune

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A space station in orbit

Space

China wants to share its new space station with the world

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The alien world that's being vaporised by a death ray

Space

The alien world that's being vaporised by a death ray

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Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

Life

Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

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Ocean worlds could host life under layers of high-pressure ice

Life

Ocean worlds could host life under layers of high-pressure ice

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Technology

Carbon nanotubes too weak to get a space elevator off the ground

Simulations show that just a single out-of-place atom is enough to ruin the famed strength of carbon nanotubes, so using them to build a space elevator seems unlikely  

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Space

Massive exoplanet’s close dance is making its star spin faster

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Space

Gravity probe LISA Pathfinder achieves best ever free fall

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Space

Idle Motion's Voyager struggles to clear the tower

CultureLab

Space

Packing for space flattened NASA's inflatable space hotel

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