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Successful launch of SpaceX rocket after September launchpad explosion

The private Californian company SpaceX has successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket.

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Meet Canada's robot masters

Behind the scenes at the Canadian Space Agency to meet the team that controls the Canadarm 2, trains astronauts to use space robots, and develops rovers for the Moon and Mars.

Switzerland

CERN scientists' breakthrough experiment helps unravel mysteries of antimatter

It is just one small step towards understanding one of the great mysteries of the universe - why does anything exist?

World News

Galileo goes live: Europe's long-delayed satellite navigation service starts service

Galileo goes live.

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Students and NASA design suit for Mars

A full-scale, wearable and adjustable model of a space suit designed for the first Mars landing underwent testing on Monday (5 December) at the Rhode Island School of…

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A technological eye on the future of our seas and our agriculture

From the ocean depths to the vastness of the cosmos, new technologies give scientists a better understanding of the world around us.

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Takeaway: Global observation

130 thousand antennas like these are being installed in Australia.

World

ESA's space chief Wörner on future of ISS, Moon and Mars exploration

Euronews' Jeremy Wilks talks to Jan Wörner, Director General of the European Space Agency on the future of European space travel

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Via Lactea project reveals a new view of the Milky Way

Our galaxy as you have never seen it before and a huge amount of important scientific data to better understand its behavior and evolution.

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Takeaway: the star factory

The Via Lactea project has created the largest database on the Milky Way The data was collected by the Herschel telescope with more than 900 hrs of observations.

Japan

Japan launches new weather satellite with manga cartoons

Japan has launched a new weather satellite into orbit.

World News

Still no word on Europe's Mars lander - but ESA hails mission a success

The European Space Agency (ESA) is hailing its ExoMars mission a success despite mystery over the fate of a lander supposed to have touched down on the Red…

World News

Mystery remains over fate of European Mars lander Schiaparelli

The fate of a European probe supposed to have touched down on Mars on Wednesday remains a mystery.

World News

Europe and Russia's mission to Mars

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

Business Planet

How the EU's Copernicus space programme is starting to pay off

Since Europe's 1998 decision to have its own Earth Observation system it has spent several billion euros putting the Copernicus programme's Sentinel satellites into space. Despite the huge costs the d

Sci-Tech

'Commencing countdown' astronauts prepare for blast off

French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is going for a swim, but this is one dip with a difference. Pesquet is taking his last training session in NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at Johnson Space Cente

China

China's second space lab blasts off from Gobi desert

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

Sci-Tech

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

USA

Is anyone out there? Mysterious radio signal sparks alien speculation

A mysterious radio signal picked up by a Russian telescope was probably not sent by aliens but astronomers in California are checking it out, anyway.

Sci-Tech

NASA's latest launch - to bring back 'scientific treasure'

NASA is counting down to their OSIRIS-REx mission (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer), aimed at bringing samples back from a near-Earth…