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Illustration showing Moon Express probe against lunar backdrop

Space

Google-sponsored race to the moon has ended without a winner

None of the private space firms racing to put a rover on the moon will be ready to launch by March, so the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize will go unclaimed

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Upstart Electron rocket has made it to orbit for the first time

Space

Upstart Electron rocket has made it to orbit for the first time

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The bright Cepheid variable star at the center of the image, RS Puppis, rhythmically brightens and dims

Physics

The universe still seems to be expanding faster than it ought to

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space launch

Space

We must accept more risks if we want space travel to take off

Insight

Falcon Heavy rocket

Space

SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket test is the start of a race to Mars

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Cosmic couture: The urgent quest to redesign the spacesuit

Space

Cosmic couture: The urgent quest to redesign the spacesuit

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1845 telescope

Physics

Exploring the universe – and how we found our place in it

Culture

Mercury probe

Space

2018 preview: Epic mission to Mercury will unravel its mysteries

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2018 preview: Return to the moon as eight missions are planned

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Space-time and gravity might be born from the quantum world

Physics

Space-time and gravity might be born from the quantum world

To reconcile quantum mechanics and gravity, a new theory flips the usual script. Space-time and gravity may emerge from quantum effects, not the other way round

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Space

NASA has discovered our solar system’s twin with 8 planets

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Space

Trump directs NASA to send astronauts to the moon and then Mars

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Space

Bizarre supernova may be powered by hidden disc of dust and gas

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Space

The usual way of hunting dark matter may be all wrong

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