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Kepler space telescope

Sputnik 1

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Sputnik 1

How did the universe begin?

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How did the universe begin?

Where do meteorites come from?

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Where do meteorites come from?

astronaut on moon

Space

NASA is going back to the moon but most people in the US don't want to

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Tiangong space station

LightSail 2

Space

SpaceX is about to launch a sail propelled through space by sunshine

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Mercury

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How Mercury and Venus can guide our hunt for alien life on exoplanets

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Don't miss: men on the moon, robots in orbit and museums in the street

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Don't miss: men on the moon, robots in orbit and museums in the street

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A comet in the solar system

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ESA plans triple spacecraft to lurk in wait for a speedy comet

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Albert Einstein smoking a pip

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein is arguably the most influential scientist of the 20th century. His general theory of relativity changed our understanding of space and time, becoming one of the two pillars of modern physics – the other being quantum mechanics.

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OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captures closest ever image of asteroid Bennu

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Cosmic microwave background

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General relativity

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Hubble Space Telescope

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