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Antarctic snow amid mountains

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Radioactive dust in Antarctic ice could help map interstellar clouds

Interstellar dust has been found in Antarctic snow samples. The discovery could provide a way of mapping the clouds of dust Earth has passed through in space

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Milky Way's black hole has got 75 times brighter and we don't know why

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Milky Way's black hole has got 75 times brighter and we don't know why

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UK's biggest moon exhibition captures centuries of lunar love

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UK's biggest moon exhibition captures centuries of lunar love

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3D map of the Milky Way

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Best ever map of Milky Way shows our galaxy is warped in an S-shape

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LightSail 2 above the Earth

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LightSail 2 has used sunlight alone to steer around Earth

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Before building another telescope, learn from Hawaiian culture

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Before building another telescope, learn from Hawaiian culture

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Nasa's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

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Three newly discovered exoplanets orbit a star 73 light years away

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Awkward truths about Boris Johnson's praise for UK science and tech

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Awkward truths about Boris Johnson's praise for UK science and tech

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What happened when the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet smashed into Jupiter

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women on the ISS

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After years of sexism in space we urgently need more female astronauts

Getting more women into space is essential if we're ever to run longer missions or even set up colonies off-planet. To do so we need a better understanding of how human bodies will cope in outer space

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Tiny pebbles may be the reason most planets spin in the same direction

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LightSail 2 unfurls solar sail and begins travelling through space

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India has launched its Chandrayaan 2 mission to the moon

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Man on the moon? Why we said Apollo 11 was an empty, obsessional quest

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