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Space silhouettes: Giant monuments celebrate Soviet supremacy

Moscow is filled with monuments to the space race, when the Soviet Union battled it out with the US. Danila Tkachenko captured the spirit of the age

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Future air conditioning could work by beaming heat into space

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Future air conditioning could work by beaming heat into space

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First exoplanet weather report shows clouds of ruby and sapphire

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First exoplanet weather report shows clouds of ruby and sapphire

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City rooftops have been collecting cosmic dust that falls from the sky

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Cosmic dust grains found on city rooftops for the first time

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Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity took its first solo flight after a 2014 accident this weekend

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Virgin Galactic takes first solo glide flight since 2014 crash

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The planned ExoMars rover will carry a drill to dig for life

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ESA approves 2020 ExoMars rover despite crash earlier this year

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Buzz Aldrin evacuated from South Pole after falling ill

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Buzz Aldrin evacuated from South Pole after falling ill

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Gravitational waves are ripples in space time that can be heard across the universe

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LIGO turns back on to hunt for more gravitational waves

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Apollo 17 lunar buggy

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Private moon mission plans to revisit Apollo 17 landing site

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Moon-dust cake mix shows moon may have had water from the start

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Moon-dust cake mix shows moon may have had water from the start

Early moon geology recreated in the lab suggests water was there to begin with, not added later by comets

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Window to hell: Io's strongest volcano changes face as we watch

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First ever lightning-mapping satellite set for take off

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Is new talk of interstellar drive too good to be true?

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China's space station now has insects, weeds and rice on board

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