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Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo in flight

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Virgin Galactic returns to the skies two years after fatal crash

The private spaceflight company made a successful test flight of its SpaceShipTwo and White Knight craft over the Mojave Desert

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CSI Eta Carinae: Clouds suggest odd star's history of violence

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CSI Eta Carinae: Clouds suggest odd star's history of violence

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Stars burning strangely make life in the multiverse more likely

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Stars burning strangely make life in the multiverse more likely

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SpaceX rocket blows up during routine test ahead of launch

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SpaceX rocket blows up during routine test ahead of launch

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Russian telescope

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Mysterious signal unlikely to be aliens after SETI draws a blank

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The RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya

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Mysterious SETI signal sends alien-hunting telescopes scrambling

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Proxima b’s star could be blasting away the planet’s atmosphere

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Proxima b’s star could be blasting away the planet’s atmosphere

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Tale of world of supersmart spiders takes Clarke SF award

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Tale of world of supersmart spiders takes Clarke SF award

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illustration of a planet in silhouette with a star behind

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Proxima b: 7 big questions about the new planet next door

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Proxima B

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Getting to Proxima b might become an existential requirement

Current starshot ventures to get to our new neighbour are too expensive to be practical, but finding out more about the planet should be a high priority

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Interstellar probes will be eroded on the way to Alpha Centauri

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NASA gets in touch with spacecraft two years after it vanished

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China launches world's first quantum communications satellite

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The brightest stellar wildfire hosts impossibly huge stars

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