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Expedition 55 crew lands back on Earth after 168 days in space

The crew - Anton Shkaplerov of Russian space agency Roscosmos, Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA astronaut Scott Tingle - parachuted safely into Kazakhstan.

Sport

World Cup fever breaks out on the International Space Station

Two Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station played a match in zero-gravity

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Is Pluto a giant comet? And does it really have dunes on its surface?

Scientists have detected a large field of dunes on the surface of the distant planet Pluto apparently made from lumps of ice.

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The sky is no limit: Your space questions answered at #Ask Space

From what happens to space junk to the practicalities of voyaging to Mars, #AskSpace provides answers to your most burning questions about outer space.

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Alan Bean, 4th man on the moon, dies aged 86

Alan Bean, NASA astronaut and 4th man to walk on the moon, passed away, aged 86, on May 26, after a short illness, his family said in a press release.

China

China flies to the moon

China aims to catch up with Russia and the United States to become a major space power by 2030

World

Human enhancement and UAE’s Mars mission: the Future Forum's hot topics

Microscopic vision, brain implants and the importance of the 2020 Emirati mission to Mars were highlights at the Future Forum in Abu Dhabi

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A 360 view of space seen from 1.5 million km from Earth

Ever wondered what our galaxy really looks like? This might be the best view you ever get.

Russia

Watch: Europe launches latest environment observation satellite

The Sentinel-3B satellite is set to observe the Earth’s oceans, lakes and vegetation.

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Privately-funded 'mission to the moon' to celebrate Apollo 11 anniversary

A privately-funded space exploration mission to launch in 2019 and to land on the moon will carry a time capsule about humanity and Earth.

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NASA to use 3D-printed parts for spacecraft for first time

As NASA prepares to send a spacecraft deeper into space than ever before, it will do so achieving yet another milestone: For the first time ever, some of the spacecraft's components will be 3D printed. An innovation that could speed up space exploration.

USA

"Lost in Space" makes a comeback courtesy of Netflix. The new series starts on April 13

The classic sixties U.S TV show first hit our screens in 1965

United Kingdom

‘Space harpoon’ to capture orbiting junk heads to ISS

The British-designed satellite is equipped with a net for capturing space litter and a harpoon for spearing and hauling in bigger objects.

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NASA develops plan to send robot bees to Mars

Scientists say Marsbees will be the size of bumblebees but with cicada-sized wings.

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China's old space lab crashes into South Pacific

China's defunct Tiangong-1 space lab break up on re-entry into Earth's atmosphere and crashes into South Pacific

China

Updated: When and where will China’s ‘out of control' space station crash on Earth?

The Tiangong-1 space station is hurtling back to Earth on Monday but no-one knows exactly when or where it is going to crash.

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Euroviews. Houston, we have a space junk problem: View

How scientists are trying to stop space debris from creating a cosmic junkyard.

Europe News

Brexit: Will UK be lost in space?

Britain could be frozen out of parts of Galileo project, Europe's version of GPS

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How a harpoon could be Europe’s answer to catching wayward satellite

Engineering giant Airbus is testing a big harpoon to catch wayward satellites — a move that could be of interest to European space chiefs.

United Kingdom

Stephen Hawking: admired by scientists and the public

Euronews went to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich to ask people how they'll remember the British physicist, who passed away at the age of 76.