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Diversity in space: ESA announces first 'parastronaut'

ESA's new class of astronauts includes a Paralympic athlete - a first for any major space agency - and two women.

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NASA space capsule reaches the Moon for the first time in 50 years

The Artemis Orion spacecraft successfully completed its flyby 130 km above the Moon and managed to re-acquire signal with Earth.

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Artemis launch brings us one giant leap closer to a return to the Moon

The launch of the unmanned test flight is a critical step in landing humans back on the Moon for the first time in half a century.

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In pictures: The Earth and Moon captured by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft

The spacecraft is on a 12-year journey to capture the diversity and mystery of asteroids.

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What life will be like inside NASA's new Moon buggy

NASA's prototype lunar rover has been tested in the Arizona desert as part of the Artemis programme aiming to send humans back to the Moon.

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Billionaire books SpaceX trip around the Moon for him and his wife

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has signed up 82-year-old Dennis Tito, the world's first space tourist, for a Starship flight around the Moon.

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Meet Samantha Cristoforetti, the ISS' new commander and TikTok star

Italy’s first female astronaut and a TikTok star in orbit, Samantha Cristoforetti has become the first European woman to lead the ISS.

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NASA successfully crashes spacecraft into asteroid

NASA now hopes the collision will change the trajectory of the asteroid, in a first-of-its-kind planetary defence test.

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A NASA spacecraft is about to deliberately crash into an asteroid

NASA's asteroid-smashing DART spacecraft is set to hit its target on Monday, in a test run for what to do if one ever threatened Earth.

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'Ocean planet' discovered which could have temperatures right for life

The one-of-a-kind exoplanet, which could support life, orbits a star 100 lightyears from our own planet, Earth.

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket explodes a minute after lift-off

The rocket's uncrewed capsule was safely ejected and parachuted back to land.

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Diamonds on Uranus: How it may be raining jewels on icy planets

A new study suggests diamond rain may be much more prevalent in the universe than previously thought.

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Cosmonauts conduct spacewalk aboard ISS

Expedition 67 Commander Oleg Artemyev and Flight Engineer Denis Matveev, both of Roscosmos, began a spacewalk early Friday to continue outfitting the European robotic arm on the International Space Station's Nauka laboratory.

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James Webb Telescope spots first clear evidence of CO2 on exoplanet

Scientists working on the project said they are now "crossing an important threshold in exoplanet sciences".

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Could humans be calling this inflatable house home on the Red Planet?

The two artists behind the project have spent seven years building a house that’s more about living on Mars rather than just surviving.

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Jordan Peele’s ‘Nope’: how do you see aliens?

Jordan Peele’s new film 'Nope' has begun its international rollout in most European territories this month. But beyond impressive box-office numbers, there’s another reason to get excited about 'Nope': the way it portrays aliens.

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The Moon then Mars? NASA is readying itself to land humans by 2025

As a first step, the Artemis program will send an unmanned spacecraft to orbit the Moon with mannequins and torsos made of simulated human tissue onboard to test how the voyage will affect human beings.

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‘Needle in a haystack’ dormant black hole discovered outside Milky Way

Described as a “needle in a haystack”, the black hole seems to have been created without the usual explosion of a dying star.

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US and Russian astronauts will swap seats on rockets to ISS again

Russian cosmonauts will fly on US-made spacecraft in exchange for US astronauts being able to ride on Russia's Soyuz.

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Strange ‘heartbeat’ signal detected in depths of space

The signal is coming from a galaxy billions of light-years from Earth.