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Europe and Russia's mission to Mars

The ExoMars mission blasted off seven months ago abord a Russian rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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Video of Earth from the International Space Station (taken from Nasa live cut during the Orbital ATK launch).

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Is there life on Mars? Landing of ExoMars probe today may tell us more

Destination: The Red Planet.

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A giant leap forward? China embarks on its longest space mission to date

China's Shenzhou-11 docks at the Tiangong 2 space lab in what could be a giant leap forward for its space programme.

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ExoMars arrives at the Red Planet

ExoMars is a mission of firsts – if all goes to plan then this will be Europe’s first controlled landing on Mars, and this is the first mission of its kind to go directly in search of signs of…

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ExoMars mission enters crucial stage

ExoMars, the European Space Agency’s mission to Mars, is at a crucial stage.

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China launches its longest manned space mission

China has launched its longest manned space mission, sending two men into orbit to spend a month on board a space laboratory.

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European probe set to touch down on Mars

The European Space Agency’s Schiaparelli spacecraft is on course to land on Mars, after it successfully separated from its mothership, the Trace Gas Orbiter, on…

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ExoMars has Red Planet in its sights - within days!

Landing on Mars is notoriously difficult.

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President Obama plots a course to Mars and back by the 2030s

US President Barack Obama has revealed that the United States is working in partnership with private companies to send and expedition to Mars and back by the 2030s.

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Mission accomplished: Rosetta crash crowns ESA's historic achievement

The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission has come to a close with success after crash landing hits target

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Space: Rosetta mission to come crashing to a close

The Rosetta space mission is about to come crashing to an end.

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Rosetta heads for glorious crash-landing

In just a few days’ time ESA’s Rosetta mission is going to come to a close in a most extraordinary fashion, because the spacecraft is going to slowly, and deliberately crash-land into the comet that i

China

China's second space lab blasts off from Gobi desert

It’s lift off for China’s second prototype space station.

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Philae: a space odyssey with a happy end

After nearly two years missing in action, Rosetta's small lander Philae has finally been located in a shadowed spot on the comet 67-P - also known as Churyumov Gerasimenko - just three weeks before th

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Record-breaking US astronaut, crewmates safely return to Earth

Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams has now spent a total of 534 days in space throughout his career, more than any other US astronaut.

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Philae - Lost....and Found!

The lost lander has been spotted on the "Space Duck" comet it landed on 664 days ago.

USA

Cape Canaveral explosion destroys SpaceX rocket and Israeli satellite

An explosion has destroyed a rocket during test firing at Cape Canaveral in Florida.

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[Watch] ISS spots three hurricanes

Nasa has upload this amazing timelapse footage showing three hurricanes filmed by the International Space Station on August 30.

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NASA's SpaceX Dragon capsule returns home

NASA’s SpaceX Dragon capsule has returned to Earth carrying a huge cargo of scientific experiments from the International Space Station.