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The whirlwind of Opportunity

NASA’s Mars rover has photographed its first “dust devil”.

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Decide where NASA’s “RATS” go

Where will NASA go to test its prototype vehicles and suits? You decide!

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ISS communicating in sign language

Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson answered several questions using ASL, American Sign Language.

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The incredible fate of a star ejected from our galaxy

Space telescope Hubble has studied a sun which is speeding away from our Milky Way at 2.5 million km/h and has suffered a most unusual fate...

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A space hotel in 2015?

Original holidays in low Earth orbit: a company based in Las Vegas is giving it very serious thought and taking all the relevant steps.

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WISE has surveyed the sky in infrared light

Astronomers are soon to have a new map of the canopy of heaven.

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One more space shuttle flight in 2011

A bill voted on Thursday in the United States Senate will enable NASA to make an additional space shuttle flight next summer and to improve the transition to a human space flight programme to explore asteroids and Mars.

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So where are the extraterrestrial beings?

Not so very long ago, astronomers were theorising about life on practically every planet in the solar system whereas today the Earth is sometimes envisaged as the only haven for living beings... have the extraterrestrial beings disappeared in-between times?
The rapid growth of New Space

For several years, entrepreneurs have been aspiring to develop a new approach to the space industry and targeting a reduction in launch costs. Is the private sector going to revolutionise human space flight?
Avatar’s Venture Star

The spaceship from James Cameron’s film is far less fanciful than it appears and even plausibly deals with several problems posed by interstellar travel.