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Comet flyby to be visible with naked eye

Comet 46P/Wirtanen will be visible from dark-sky locations tonight as it safely buzzes Earth at a distance of only 11.7 million kilometers.

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'Flurry of shooting stars' to light up the sky

If you want to wish upon a shooting star, the annual Geminids meteor shower is to be at its peak on Thursday and Friday!

USA

Virgin Galactic aims 'to reach space' on test flight

SpaceShipTwo is expected to reach an altitude of 80 kms.

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NASA's Voyager 2 'leaves Solar System' and enters interstellar space

Probe becomes the second human-made object to leave the Solar System and enter the realm of interstellar space.

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NASA spacecraft captures first ever 'sounds' of wind on Mars

NASA's InSight lander recorded the 'unworldly' sound of Martian wind

United Kingdom

UK minister quits over Brexit deal and access to Galileo space project

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed on Friday that the UK will pull out of the EU's Galileo satellite-navigation system.

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The InSight lander's work on Mars has only just begun

NASA’s InSight lander completed a seven-month journey through space after landing on Mars yesterday, but its work on the Red Planet has only just begun.

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NASA's InSight spacecraft sends 'selfie' back to earth

NASA's InSight spacecraft sends 'selfie' back to earth

USA

Watch again: NASA’s InSight lander arrives on Mars

Join Euronews live as NASA's InSight lander arrives on Mars.

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Russia planning moon base manned by robots

Russia's space agency says it is considering establishing a base on the moon, possibly manned by robot avatars.

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Oumuamua: Comet or Alien Solar Probe? | Euronews answers

Harvard-based researchers say a mystery object traveling through space could be a spacecraft sent towards the Earth by an alien civilisation.

USA

Neil Armstrong astronaut memorabilia auction lifts off

Space enthusiasts spend more than $4 million in just the first day of an auction of Astronaut Neil Armstrong’s personal collection of memorabilia.

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#AskSpace | LIVE from Facebook: a special edition

#AskSpace | Could humans travel at the speed of light? What are the health consequences of staying in space for more than a year? Could you ride a bike on the Moon? Euronews' Jeremy Wilks and ESA's systems engineer Tiago Soares answered the questions LIVE on Facebook.

United Arab Emirates

First Emirati-made satellite launched into space

KhalifaSat, the first-ever Emirati-manufactured satellite successfully launched into space from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Centre on October 29.

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Meet the man behind 2001: A Space Odyssey's visual effects

50 years on, one of the key players behind the sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey has rewatched his visual effects work alongside an audience of 2,000 people in the French city of Lyon.

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Europe's space mission to Mercury begins

By the time it reaches its science orbit in 2026, the probe will have travelled nine billion kms and completed nine planetary flybys past Earth, Venus and Mercury.

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Astronauts make emergency landing as engine fails on Soyuz rocket

Russian officials are investigating the cause of a booster problem that forced a Soyuz rocket capsule to make an emergency landing just after launch

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Crew stuck on International Space Station 'essentially marooned'

Renowned Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield says the three people stuck on the International Space Station are essentially 'marooned' there for a while.

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Soyuz makes emergency landing after booster problems end space mission

Soyuz makes emergency landing after booster problems end space mission

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Ever wondered what's out there? Now's your chance to #AskSpace

Our Space reporter, Jeremy Wilks, puts all your questions about space to guest expert, Tiago Soares, a European Space Agency systems engineer, in a Facebook Live. With thanks to Scientix for gathering questions from students across Europe to mark World Space Week.