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Two old spacecraft just avoided catastrophically colliding in orbit

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Two old spacecraft just avoided catastrophically colliding in orbit

A defunct navigation satellite and an old rocket booster have narrowly avoided a collision. If they had hit each other, it would have created two orbiting clouds of hazardous shrapnel that could threaten other satellites

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International Space Station image shows beauty of the world's oceans

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International Space Station image shows beauty of the world's oceans

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Arrokoth

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Space rock Arrokoth may have been flattened by the heat of the sun

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To understand signs of life on Venus we must do chemistry on Earth

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To understand signs of life on Venus we must do chemistry on Earth

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Missions to confirm signs of life on Venus are already in the works

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Missions to confirm signs of life on Venus are already in the works

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Alien life may exist on Venus but intelligence could be harder to find

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Alien life may exist on Venus but intelligence could be harder to find

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Why we're in for a long wait to hear from intelligent aliens

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Why we're in for a long wait to hear from intelligent aliens

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Perseverance

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Perseverance Mars landing: Will NASA find life?

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Meet NASA's latest Mars Rover: Will Perseverance find life in 2021?

Meet NASA's latest Mars Rover: Will Perseverance find life in 2021?

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Eugene Cernan and Ronald Evans

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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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Life in the toxic clouds of Venus

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

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

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Glittering image of Andromeda galaxy takes top photography award

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