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87-year-old Lucio Ballesteros hopes that mankind will one day use the vessel to travel to an alien planet.
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Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence that can be used to run a manned outpost on another world.
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An aircraft with no moving parts has successfully flown a distance of 60 meters using 'ionic wind' technology.
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More than 650 people gathered in Colorado this month to promote the idea that our planet is as flat as a pancake.
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The futuristic X-59 will be able to travel at supersonic speeds without producing a deafening sonic boom.
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Astronomers have revealed the discovery of a 'super-Earth' around a star that is a mere six light years away.
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Scientists behind the ExoMars mission have picked out a landing site where they hope to find evidence of alien life.
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After spending years unravelling the mysteries of the dwarf planet Ceres, Dawn has finally run out of fuel.
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ESA's Mars Express orbiter has photographed a long white cloud lingering eerily over the planet's surface.
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Scientists developing Europe's new ExoMars rover are optimistic about its chances of finding life on Mars.
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The ambitious new mission will see two satellites placed in to orbit around the closest planet to the Sun.
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Four gargantuan planets have been observed orbiting a relatively young star approximately 500 light years away.
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The important new find also hints at the presence of another, much larger planet in the outer solar system.
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Astronomer Royal Martin Rees has warned that a failed particle accelerator experiment could prove disastrous.
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The ever-ambitious entrepreneur is aiming to construct a human colony on the Red Planet by as early as 2028.
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A new study has cast further light on a mystery fossil that scientists say is as 'strange as life on another planet'.
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The new planet is located in the same star system as Spock's home world in the 'Star Trek' universe.
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Researchers have called into question the reasoning behind Pluto's demotion from planet to dwarf planet.
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A new study has determined how a volcanic eruption 205 million years ago wiped out 90 percent of all life on Earth.
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The US military's mysterious X-37B has spent almost a year in space on its latest secretive mission.