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My year on Mars: Frontier life of a space doctor

How will the first settlers to the Red Planet get on? Sheyna Gifford should know, after surviving a year-long NASA mission inside a dome on a volcano

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bee and flower

Technology

Drones inspired by insects could keep flying even when damaged

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Large asteroid impacts may be rare, but we should be prepared

Earth

Large asteroid impacts may be rare, but we should be prepared

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Space

Space silhouettes: Giant monuments celebrate Soviet supremacy

Regulars

Saturn

Space

Cassini's grand finale will see orbiter plunge into Saturn

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Future air conditioning could work by beaming heat into space

Earth

Future air conditioning could work by beaming heat into space

News

First exoplanet weather report shows clouds of ruby and sapphire

Space

First exoplanet weather report shows clouds of ruby and sapphire

News

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

Space

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

Space

Virgin Galactic takes first solo glide flight since 2014 crash

News

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

Space

ESA approves 2020 ExoMars rover despite crash earlier this year

Putting aside the dramatic loss of the Schiaparelli lander in October and concerns about cost, ESA member states voted to go ahead with the next part of the life-hunting ExoMars mission

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Space

Buzz Aldrin evacuated from South Pole after falling ill

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Physics

LIGO turns back on to hunt for more gravitational waves

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Space

Private moon mission plans to revisit Apollo 17 landing site

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Earth

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

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