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LightSail 2 above the Earth

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LightSail 2 has used sunlight alone to steer around Earth

The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 spacecraft has fulfilled its mission, demonstrating controlled solar sailing in orbit around Earth for the first time

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Before building another telescope, learn from Hawaiian culture

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Before building another telescope, learn from Hawaiian culture

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Nasa's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

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Three newly discovered exoplanets orbit a star 73 light years away

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Awkward truths about Boris Johnson's praise for UK science and tech

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Awkward truths about Boris Johnson's praise for UK science and tech

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women on the ISS

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After years of sexism in space we urgently need more female astronauts

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What happened when the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet smashed into Jupiter

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Tiny pebbles may be the reason most planets spin in the same direction

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Tiny pebbles may be the reason most planets spin in the same direction

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LightSail 2 unfurls solar sail and begins travelling through space

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LightSail 2 unfurls solar sail and begins travelling through space

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India's Chandrayaan-2 missions takes off

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India has launched its Chandrayaan 2 mission to the moon

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Man on the moon? Why we said Apollo 11 was an empty, obsessional quest

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Man on the moon? Why we said Apollo 11 was an empty, obsessional quest

�鶹��ý was opposed to the Apollo missions from the start, and complained for decades that the money to send people into space was being wasted. Why were we so grumpy and pessimistic about putting a man on the moon?

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Apollo 11 looks like yesterday in new TV show using restored footage

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India’s moon mission Chandrayaan 2 delayed just before launch

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James Lovelock says artificial intelligence is the start of new life

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India is about to launch a lander and rover to the moon’s south pole

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