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Interstellar probes will be eroded on the way to Alpha Centauri

If Breakthrough Starshot launches tiny spacecraft to our nearest star system at one-fifth light speed, they will have to survive bombardment with interstellar dust

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NASA gets in touch with spacecraft two years after it vanished

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China's quantum communications satellite launches

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China launches world's first quantum communications satellite

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The brightest stellar wildfire hosts impossibly huge stars

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The brightest stellar wildfire hosts impossibly huge stars

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Triple signal of ‘alien megastructure’ star baffles astronomers

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Triple signal of ‘alien megastructure’ star baffles astronomers

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Inside NASA's towering rocket factory before deep space mission

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot is making its atmosphere hotter

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot is making its atmosphere hotter

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Bye bye Philae! Comet team to lose touch with lander for good

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Bye bye Philae! Comet team to lose touch with lander for good

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Astronauts prepare for Mars mission at the bottom of the sea

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Astronauts prepare for Mars mission at the bottom of the sea

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Flying-saucer-like craft swoops over rocky terrain with Saturn-like world on the horizon

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Six science fiction novels you should be reading

This year's crop of Arthur C. Clarke award hopefuls will grip you and not let go

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No more space race rhetoric: it's not just about the US any more

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Next-gen Mars orbiters to help human missions become more real

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Einstein's clock: The doomed black hole to set your watch by

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SpaceX launches DNA sequencer and new docking port to the ISS

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