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    • Saturday, 11 March, 2023
      Japan’s space ambitions fizzle after rocket failure

      Decade-long effort was source of national pride and meant to be symbol of technological prowess

    • Saturday, 4 March, 2023
      Scientists launch new initiative to look for extraterrestrial life

      Astrobiologists believe simple organisms pervade the universe but advanced civilisations are extremely rare

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
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      Europe’s boldest space mission to search for life in outer solar system

      Juice spacecraft’s ambitious 12-year voyage will observe Jupiter and three of its moons

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    • Wednesday, 30 November, 2022
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    • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
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    • Wednesday, 16 November, 2022
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      Uncrewed US spacecraft heads for lunar orbit in build-up to mid-decade astronaut landing

    • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
      Mars meteorite smashes reveal insights into red planet

      Data from two Nasa missions shows it may hold more subsurface ice than scientists previously thought

    • Tuesday, 11 October, 2022
      Nasa says probe deflected asteroid’s path more than expected

      US space agency declares success in mission testing technology that could divert deadly objects

    • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
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      Deflecting asteroids is only one thing on humanity’s worry list

      Nasa’s mission gives hope we can defend our planet but human nature and technology present risks of their own

    • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
      Nasa successfully smashes satellite into asteroid in first deflection mission

      Dart strikes target 11mn km away in test of new technology to protect Earth from future threats

    • Monday, 12 September, 2022
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      New Shepard grounded until the US aviation regulator finishes an investigation of the incident

    • Monday, 29 August, 2022
      Nasa cancels launch of Moon mission after engine trouble

      Last-minute scrub of Artemis rocket delays effort to return astronauts to lunar surface

    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
      Martin Rees
      The future of space exploration belongs to robots and billionaires

      We may be nostalgic about astronauts but our scientific abilities have leapfrogged our physical ones

    • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
      Special ReportJapan and Sustainability
      Astroscale: on a mission to clean up space junk

      By developing technology to remove debris, the Japanese company hopes to help shape space governance rules

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      John Gapper
      The Webb space telescope takes snapshots of the sublime

      Nasa’s translation of infrared light into colour is like making a digitally doctored photo of deep space

    • Wednesday, 13 July, 2022
      Anjana Ahuja
      A new era of astronomy has begun

      The audacious gamble on the James Webb Space Telescope’s giant foldable mirror has paid off

    • Tuesday, 12 July, 2022
      Webb telescope images reveal dance of ancient galaxies

      New pictures released as part of $10bn collaboration come as space agencies hail ‘dawn of a new era in astronomy’

    • Monday, 13 June, 2022
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      Scientists map Milky Way stars using European space telescope

      Data from the Gaia observatory will help to reconstruct our galaxy’s evolution and predict its development

    • Friday, 10 June, 2022
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