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Eugene Cernan and Ronald Evans

Space

Most space travellers are men despite slow rise in female astronauts

Early space travellers were younger men, but the average age has risen since the 1960s. More women are also now going to space, but they only make up 64 of the 566 to have left Earth

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Venus

Space

Life in the toxic clouds of Venus

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Venus in a spacesuit reflection

Space

It’s time to for us to revisit Venus to uncover its many mysteries

Comment

Lighting fires in space is helping us make greener energy on Earth

Space

Lighting fires in space is helping us make greener energy on Earth

Features

Glittering image of Andromeda galaxy takes top photography award

Space

Glittering image of Andromeda galaxy takes top photography award

Regulars

NASA to film an Estée Lauder ad in space as the ISS opens for business

Space

NASA to film an Estée Lauder ad in space as the ISS opens for business

Insight

Dogs in the documentary Space Dogs

Space

Space Dogs review: A dog's-eye view of how Laika could have lived

Culture

Anousheh Ansari interview: Why everyone should see Earth from space

Space

Anousheh Ansari interview: Why everyone should see Earth from space

Features

China seems to have launched a secret reusable space plane

Space

China seems to have launched a secret reusable space plane

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Deinococcus radiodurans

Life

Radiation-resistant bacteria could survive journey from Earth to Mars

Bacteria strapped to the outside of the International Space Station were still alive three years later, suggesting that microbes could travel on asteroids between planets

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Physics

Inside the incredibly slow race to reinvent time

Features

Space

ESA's dazzling laser hunts for atmospheric pollution in the Antarctic

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Space

Why dark matter should be called something else

Comment

Space

SpaceX’s prototype Mars rocket has flown for the first time

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