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Alexander Gerst has created a breathtaking visual record of our planet as seen from space.
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From Ebola to the Rosetta mission, this year has seen more than its fair share of conspiracy theories.
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Omaha resident David Pares has built what he believes to be the world’s first low-power warp drive motor.
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NASA's Kepler space telescope has made its first discovery since being crippled by a technical fault.
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For the first time Rosetta's new home can be viewed in full color, even though there isn't much of it.
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A Russian scientist has identified a huge asteroid that crosses the Earth's orbit every three years.
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NASA's successor to the space shuttles landed safely earlier today after embarking on its maiden voyage.
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The DNA managed to survive being painted on to the outside of a rocket and blasted in to space.
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A lamb chop on a fork was sent in to suborbital space as part of a bizarre new book promotion exercise.
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Researchers are investigating the viability of growing enough food in space to sustain long missions.
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The world's first zero-gravity 3D printer has now been set up inside one of the station's science labs.
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Speculation is rife over the purpose of a secretive Russian spacecraft currently orbiting the planet.
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Rosetta's companion spacecraft has made history today by touching down on the surface of a comet.
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The space station performed an emergency maneuver last month to avoid a piece of orbiting debris.
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A passenger on an airliner flying over Iranian airspace managed to capture footage of a strange object.
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The European Space Agency has outlined its concept for a habitable moon base built by an automated robot.
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NASA's successor to the space shuttles will be undertaking its first test flight in December.
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The space telescope has photographed the eerie remnants of long dead stars in a distant galaxy cluster.
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The company's SpaceShipTwo vehicle exploded over the Mojave desert following an 'in-flight anomaly'.
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured images of sunlight glinting on Titan's hydrocarbon oceans.