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‘I get emotional thinking about it’: US and Canada ready for total solar eclipse
Cities expect huge crowds with millions gathering in 115-mile wide ‘path of totality’ for Monday’s exceptionally...
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Moon Standard Time? Nasa to create lunar-centric time reference system
Space agency tasked with establishing Coordinated Lunar Time, partly to aid missions requiring extreme precisionThe White...
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Space One rocket explodes soon after launch in Japan
First attempt with private Kairos rocket was intended to test viability of homegrown commercial launch businessA...
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Controversial new theory of gravity rules out need for dark matter
Exclusive: Paper by UCL professor says ‘wobbly’ space-time could instead explain expansion of universe and galactic...
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Astronomers detect ‘waterworld with a boiling ocean’ in deep space
Exclusive: Significant discovery, made by James Webb telescope, provokes disagreement over conditions on planet’s surfaceAstronomers have...
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Odysseus craft’s moon mission to be cut short after sideways landing
Intuitive Machines, private company behind lander, says mission will end after five days rather than the...
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Japan’s moon lander survives two-week lunar night after wonky landing
Unmanned Slim spacecraft responds to signal from Earth after touching down at awkward angle in JanuaryJapan’s...
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Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite to combat space pollution
The environmentally friendly LignoSat probe – set to orbit this summer – has been created to...
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Japan launches second flagship H3 rocket a year after inaugural flight self-destructed
Space agency announces ‘successful liftoff’ and says rocket has already released one micro-satelliteJapan’s space agency has...
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Japan’s ‘Moon Sniper’ craft makes lunar landing but is unable to generate electricity via solar power – as it happened
Slim spacecraft landed on the moon and is communicating with earth but is not generating electricityJapan’s...
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Nasa unveils quiet supersonic aircraft in effort to revive commercial flights
In launch event on Friday, agency shared plans to test over US cities to see if...
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Aditya-L1: India’s solar mission reaches sun’s orbit
After four-month journey, Aditya-L1 will measure and observe sun’s outermost layersIndia’s solar observation mission has entered...