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In this picture taken on July 10, 2019 a man walks past a screen displaying a computer-generated image of the Hayabusa2 probe, during a news broadcast at Akihabara district in Tokyo. - Japan's Hayabusa2 probe landed successfully on a distant asteroid for a final touchdown on July 11, 2019, hoping to collect samples that could shed light on the evolution of the solar system

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Hayabusa 2 lands on distant asteroid and collects another sample

Japan's spacecraft Hayabusa 2 has again successfully landed on a distant asteroid and completed its mission of collecting underground samples

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Astronaut

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The moon race was about short-termism and control – we can do better

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Quiz: How good is your knowledge of the moon?

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Quiz: How good is your knowledge of the moon?

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Virgin Galactic

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Virgin Galactic to become the first publicly traded space travel firm

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A close-up view of a commemorative plaque left on the Moon at the Hadley-Apennine landing site in memory of 14 NASA astronauts and USSR cosmonauts, now deceased.

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7 bizarre objects from the festival's worth of trash left on the moon

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Astronaut on Moon

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Moon rocks can tell us where life could thrive beyond the solar system

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Future moon missions probably won't carry astronauts - here's why

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Future moon missions probably won't carry astronauts - here's why

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Astronauts in mock cockpit

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Apollo 11 space mission: Diabolically hard practice got us to the moon

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Radio telescope

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Jodrell Bank Observatory honoured with UNESCO World Heritage status

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Has anyone ever died in space?

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Has anyone ever died in space?

A total of 18 people have lost their lives either while in space or in preparation for a space mission, in four separate incidents. Given the risks involved in space flight, this number is surprisingly low.

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Astronauts don't seem to be dying from exposure to space radiation

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People in Science

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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The Milky Way

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Life on Mars