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Hayabusa 2 mission team

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Hayabusa 2 begins long journey home carrying Ryugu asteroid samples

With two samples from the interior of the asteroid Ryugu on board, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is due to return to Earth at the end of 2020

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Immunofluorescence imaging of hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes grown in microgravity aboard the ISS

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Spaceflight alters heart cells but they quickly recover back on Earth

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Perseid meteor shower

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Perseid meteor shower

Meteor Crater, Arizona

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The space-junk calamity that could cut us off from the cosmos

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Teasel Muir-Harmony

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Apollo collection curator on what Neil Armstrong took to the moon

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The solar system has too many moons – it's time for a cull

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The solar system has too many moons – it's time for a cull

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Blue Moon

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Blue Origin assembles space industry dream team to build moon lander

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Moving to Mars – this show will help you become a real Martian

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Moving to Mars – this show will help you become a real Martian

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NASA engineer's 'helical engine' may violate the laws of physics

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NASA engineer's 'helical engine' may violate the laws of physics

A NASA engineer has published plans for an engine that could accelerate a rocket without using propellant. But there are questions over whether it could work

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Live: UK's first space rover, Tim Peake and the real life rocket man

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Born in the big bang: How ancient black holes could save cosmology

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Maggie Aderin-Pocock on space travel and humanity's future

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UK space academy boss Anu Ojha on what finding aliens might mean

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