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Carbon nanotubes too weak to get a space elevator off the ground

Simulations show that just a single out-of-place atom is enough to ruin the famed strength of carbon nanotubes, so using them to build a space elevator seems unlikely

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Massive exoplanet’s close dance is making its star spin faster

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Massive exoplanet’s close dance is making its star spin faster

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Gravity probe LISA Pathfinder achieves best ever free fall

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Gravity probe LISA Pathfinder achieves best ever free fall

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Idle Motion's <i>Voyager</i> struggles to clear the tower

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Idle Motion's Voyager struggles to clear the tower

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Packing for space flattened NASA's inflatable space hotel

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Packing for space flattened NASA's inflatable space hotel

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Bloated baby black holes spotted in the distant universe

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Bloated baby black holes spotted in the distant universe

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India's reusable space plane takes its first test flight

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India's reusable space plane takes its first test flight

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Identity-crisis comet may really be closest asteroid to the sun

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Identity-crisis comet may really be closest asteroid to the sun

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Unnamed dwarf planet may be third largest in the solar system

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Unnamed dwarf planet may be third largest in the solar system

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Kepler doubles exoplanet population with 1284 new planets

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Kepler doubles exoplanet population with 1284 new planets

The new planet haul is the biggest yet, bringing the number of confirmed worlds outside our solar system over 3200 - and edges us closer to knowing how many stars host other Earths

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SpaceX Mars mission is a chance to hunt for life on the planet

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SpaceX says it will fly to Mars in 2018 – what are its chances?

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Life

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Earth

Upside-down lightning and mystery blue glimpses caught on film

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