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What can be done about space debris?

There are 29,000 tracked pieces of space debris in orbit, and a million more too small to follow. They pose a risk to astronauts and satellites. So what can be done?

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Watch: What has Earth looked like for the past 20 years?

NASA released a 20-year time-lapse of Earth, showing how our planet has changed

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Here's what E.T. could actually look like

Aliens may be more like us than we think, according to evolutionary biology.

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Ozone hole shrinks to smallest since 1988

Scientists say man's efforts and favourable conditions have helped restore ozone levels.

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Japan

Giant moon cave could one day contain lunar base

Tunnel beneath the surface is thought to have been formed by volanoes.

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Legends of Space, ep 9: Voyager

The Voyager probes are deeper into space than any man-made object has ever gone before

France

54 years since the first cat in space

In 1963, after a rigorous training programme, Félicette became the first astrocat.

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Scientists strike gold with gravitational waves

For the first time scientists have detected gravitational waves, the ripples in space and time predicted by Albert Einstein, with light from the same cosmic event.

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Astronomers strike gold with gravitational waves

LIGO and Virgo detectors used to spot cataclysmic event scattering gold and platinum into space

Italy

The very short guide to why gravitational waves matter

The Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded for research into gravitational waves.

United Arab Emirates

UAE brings life on Mars to Earth with giant space city

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels will design the largest space simulation city ever built

Italy

Scientists home in on source of gravitational waves

Discovery could be step towards 'hearing' the Big Bang

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Mission accomplished for Cassini as the probe crashes into Saturn

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LIVE: Six-hour spacewalk on the ISS

Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Sergey Ryazanskiy today (August 17) take part in a six hour-long spacewalk on the International Space Station (ISS).

Sci-Tech

Why is it so hard to detect dark matter?

Euronews has spoken to Euclid project scientist René Laureijs and CERN particle physicist Caterina Doglioni to find out why dark matter is it so hard to get a glimpse of dark matter.

USA

Neil Armstrong's space bag expected to fetch millions at auction

Neil Armstrong's space bag expected to fetch millions at auction

PuertoRico

Mystery signals detected from neighbouring star

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Awesome close-up shots of Jupiter's Giant Red Spot

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Smallest-ever star discovered

The smallest-ever star has been discovered, a mini version of our Sun about as big as the planet Saturn.

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Facing the furnace: BepiColombo mission to visit Mercury

ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo mission is preparing to visit Mercury, a mysterious planet the size of the Moon and as hot as a pizza oven