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Sun’s gravity could power interstellar video streaming

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Sun’s gravity could power interstellar video streaming

Space transmissions could slingshot around the sun for a signal boost, producing data rates fast enough to stream video from interstellar space

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Gecko-inspired robot has grippers that could clean up space junk

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Gecko-inspired robot has grippers that could clean up space junk

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planet orbit

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Planets in other star systems fit a puzzling pattern

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A fine-tuned universe may be controversial but can't be ignored

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A fine-tuned universe may be controversial but can't be ignored

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SpaceX launch on 23 June

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SpaceX has launched and landed two rockets in one weekend

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telescope

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Kepler finds 219 new exoplanets and 10 are rocky and Earth-like

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Mission control

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The bandwidth black hole that will kill Elon Musk’s Mars dream

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NASA revives 50-year-old idea to recycle space stations in orbit

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NASA revives 50-year-old idea to recycle space stations in orbit

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Robots in Into the Unknown exhibition

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This science fiction trip is delightful, confusing – and risky

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Plate of space food

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Crumb-free bread will mean ISS astronauts can now bake in space

Bread has been banned in space for 50 years thanks to the dangers of free-floating crumbs – but specially designed ovens mean astronauts could soon ditch tortillas

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NASA is right to pay homage to the living for the first time

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General relativity passes test at Milky Way's central black hole

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SpaceX launches first reused Dragon capsule full of research

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LIGO’s third detection hints at how black hole binaries are born

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