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James Lovelock standing near the sea at Chesil Beach

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James Lovelock says artificial intelligence is the start of new life

¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ interviewed James Lovelock to discuss Gaia’s Novacene and our new AI overlords, microwaving hamsters for science and why Elon Musk’s Mars mission is ‘crazy’

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India is about to launch a lander and rover to the moon’s south pole

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In this picture taken on July 10, 2019 a man walks past a screen displaying a computer-generated image of the Hayabusa2 probe, during a news broadcast at Akihabara district in Tokyo. - Japan's Hayabusa2 probe landed successfully on a distant asteroid for a final touchdown on July 11, 2019, hoping to collect samples that could shed light on the evolution of the solar system

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Hayabusa 2 lands on distant asteroid and collects another sample

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The moon race was about short-termism and control – we can do better

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Quiz: How good is your knowledge of the moon?

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Quiz: How good is your knowledge of the moon?

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Virgin Galactic to become the first publicly traded space travel firm

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Future moon missions probably won't carry astronauts - here's why

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Future moon missions probably won't carry astronauts - here's why

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Astronauts in mock cockpit

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Apollo 11 space mission: Diabolically hard practice got us to the moon

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A close-up view of a commemorative plaque left on the Moon at the Hadley-Apennine landing site in memory of 14 NASA astronauts and USSR cosmonauts, now deceased.

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7 bizarre objects from the festival's worth of trash left on the moon

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Astronaut on Moon

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Moon rocks can tell us where life could thrive beyond the solar system

Moon rocks collected by the Apollo missions contain a pristine record of Earth's history. Reading it can teach us where best to look for habitable exoplanets

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Jodrell Bank Observatory honoured with UNESCO World Heritage status

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First powered flight

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Has anyone ever died in space?

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Astronauts don't seem to be dying from exposure to space radiation

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