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UN agrees new global flight tracking procedures

A global deal has been reached to track flights to avoid a repeat of planes disappearing without a trace. The decision was taken at a UN conference

11/11/2015

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NASA reveals clues to Mars' watery past

Scientists at NASA have revealed what they believe stripped Mars of water, turning it into the arid Red Planet. “What happened to the Mars

06/11/2015

USA

New Horizons finds blue skies and water ice on Pluto

The first colour images of Pluto’s atmospheric hazes, returned by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft last week, reveal that the hazes are blue. “Who

09/10/2015

USA

NASA lights up US night sky with test launch

Parts of the US east coast were treated to a light show on Wednesday when NASA launched a sounding rocket packed with Barium and Strontium. When

08/10/2015

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A Japanese astronaut has released a meteor observation microsatellite from the International Space Station

19/09/2015

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Rosetta mission: Crunch time for Philae

The Rosetta mission has changed our vision of comets and given us a new outlook on the origin of life in the universe. In this edition of Space, we

27/08/2015

USA

Astronauts take one giant leaf for mankind with space lettuce

It’s a meal that’s literally out of this world. Astronauts have sunk their teeth into food entirely grown in space for the first time. The lettuce

11/08/2015

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ISS astronauts poised to eat lettuce grown in space

10/08/2015

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Preparing for Mars

08/08/2015

China

China looks skywards with construction of huge telescope

A radio telescope, with a receiving surface the size of 30 football pitches, is being constructed in China. After five years of work, costing 176

02/08/2015

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The Astronaut Academy: 'Like in the film Gravity'

Hervé Stevenin oversees one of the toughest processes that any astronaut can go through – learning to spacewalk. The Frenchman, himself a former

15/07/2015

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Spacecraft Philae wakes up after seven months on a comet and contacts mother Earth

The European Space Agency says the comet lander Philae has woken up after seven months and sent messages back to Earth. Last November Philae became

14/06/2015

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Mars mystery: ExoMars mission to finally resolve question of life on red planet

21/05/2015

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Solar sail tests Sagan’s dream of flying with Sun’s photons

20/05/2015

World News

Happy Birthday, Hubble: legendary telescope turns 25

It was launched into space exactly 25 years ago, on 24 April 1990, amid much scepticism. The Hubble Space Telescope did little to silence its critics

22/04/2015

India

Mission succesful for high-flying Indian Space Research Organisation

Mission successful: the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has put its fourth navigation satellite into orbit. The IRNSS-1D is the latest in a

29/03/2015

Kazakhstan

Long mission begins for astronaut and two cosmonauts on ISS

It is the start of a long mission in space for a US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts. The three men blasted off in a Russian Soyuz rocket from

27/03/2015

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Comet-chasing Rosetta mission keeps surprising scientists

The comet-chasing mission of ESA spacecraft Rosetta and its robotic lander Philae has grabbed attention from around the world with its suspenseful adventures. The science behind the mission is just as

26/03/2015

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The Astronaut Academy: "Space provides this unique environment"

Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti tells Euronews about the latest scientific experiment she worked on as an astronaut on a mission to the International Space Station.

26/03/2015

World News

The final frontier: astronauts on ISS tell euronews about humanity's future in space

The future of space exploration, the emergence of the private space sector and daily life in orbit were among the topics Euronews’ Claudio Rosmino

16/03/2015