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Quickest we could visit another star is 69 years – here’s how

Space

Quickest we could visit another star is 69 years – here’s how

It may be faster to send a spacecraft to Sirius than our closest star, thanks to a trick using starlight to slow it down

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CubeSats being released in space

Space

Satellite swarms could increase space junk risk by 50 per cent

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Optical image of a portion of Virgo cluster

Space

Many tiny galaxies could host mammoth black holes

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Saturn's moon Atlas, which is shaped like a ravioli

Space

Saturn's flying saucer moon Atlas has a smooth fluffy edge

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MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars

Space

Mars's atmosphere hosts metal layers that shouldn't exist

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Water telescope uses gamma rays to track new kind of pulsar

Space

Water telescope uses gamma rays to track new kind of pulsar

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The Stellar Echo Imaging of Exoplanets Concept

Space

NASA funds radical Pluto hopper and cosmic echolocation concepts

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Atmosphere containing water detected around rocky exoplanet

Space

Atmosphere containing water detected around rocky exoplanet

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Mission control

Space

Go at throttle up: The secret world of NASA’s mission control

Culture

Oldest dust ever spotted in the universe seen in distant galaxy

Space

Oldest dust ever spotted in the universe seen in distant galaxy

We’ve spotted dust in a galaxy whose light reaches us from when the universe was only 600 million years old – a game changer for studying the earliest galaxies

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Space

Watching SpaceX’s historic relaunch and landing of a used rocket

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Space

NASA rockets leave blistering record of human space flight

Regulars

Space

SpaceX test-fires engines ahead of rocket re-launch

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Space

Backwards asteroid shares an orbit with Jupiter without crashing

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