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Tourists to view 16 sunrises and sunsets a day in space by 2022

GettingboredwithstayingathotelsonEarth?Maybenowisthetimetoplanyourspacejourney.AprivateUSenterprisehasrecentlyrevealeditsplantobuildthefirstluxuryhotelinspacewi

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Tiangong-1 space lab crash theory has collapsed

WhilemanypeopleareproudofChina’srise,therapiddevelopmentofChina’saerospaceindustryistheenvyofsomeWesterncountries.China’sdevelopmenthasalwaysbeenaccompaniedbyen

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Scientists develop high-tech harpoon to clean up Earth's space junk

ScientistsintheUKaredevelopingahigh-techharpoonthat'sdesignedtocleanupEarth'sgrowingspacejunk.Thebarbed,spear-likedevice,developedbyexpertsatAirbus,issettobetes

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Cosmonaut, two US astronauts return to Earth from ISS

TwoNASAastronautsandaRussiancosmonautreturnedtoEarthonWednesday,roundingoffamissionofmorethanfivemonthsaboardtheInternationalSpaceStation.TheSoyuzMS-06spacecaps

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Champagne box-sized satellite launched to probe distant planet<br>

Francelaunchedachampagnebox-sizedminisatelliteintoEarthorbitonFridaytostudyamysterious,juvenileplanetsysteminourMilkyWaygalaxy,missioncontrollerssaid.Weighingin

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UK satellite to make movies from space

ABritishsatellitehasgoneintoorbitonanIndianrockettoacquirefull-colour,high-definitionvideoofthesurfaceoftheEarth.Thedemonstratorisexpectedtopavethewayforaseries

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Creepy skull-like asteroid to fly by Earth again in November 2018

The"HalloweenAsteroid"willbebacknextyear.Thegiantspacerock,whichflewpastEarthduringHalloween2015,gainedpublicattentionbecauseitbearsanincredibleresemblancetoahu

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American to fly in homemade rocket to prove Earth is flat

Aself-taughtrocketscientistintheUnitedStateswilllaunchhimselfuptotheskywithahomemaderocketinabidtoprovetheEarthisflat,localmediareported.MikeHughes,a61-year-old

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U.S. scientists predict more big earthquakes in 2018

IfapredictionbytwoU.S.scientistsweretrue,thentheworldcouldseeanincreaseinthenumberofstrongearthquakesin2018andthenextfewyears.RogerBilhamoftheUniversityofColora

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NASA's Kepler discovers 20 new worlds that could be habitable

AnanalysisofdatafromtheKeplerspacetelescopehasrevealed20extraterrestrialworldsthatmightbeabletohostlife,sciencemagazineNewScientistreported.Eachnewworldcomeswit

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Mass extinctions "offer cautionary tale"

Massextinctionshavethepotentialtoguidemodernconservationefforts,sayscientists.Astudyconfirmstheideathatupheavalsofthegeologicalpastcausedadrasticlossofbiodivers

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SpaceX plans to use spaceships for Earth passenger transit

ElonMuskwasatIACshowingoffhisambitiousplantoultimatelymakeEarthaninterplanetaryspecies,andoneofthenewpiecesofhisplanherevealedwasEarth-to-EarthtransportusingSpa

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NASA’s asteroid chaser swings by Earth on way to space rock

NASA’sasteroid-chasingspacecraftswungbyEarthonFridayonitswaytoaspacerock.Launchedayearago,Osiris-Rexpassedwithin10,711miles(17,237kilometers)ofthehomeplanetearl

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ESA-backed scheme eyes lunar villages by 2030, families by 2050

By2040,ahundredpeoplewillliveontheMoon,meltingiceforwater,3D-printinghomesandtools,eatingplantsgrowninlunarsoil,andcompetinginlow-gravity,"flying"sports.Tothose

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Most powerful solar flare in decade causes radio blackouts

Two"significant"solarflareshaveblastedoutoftheSun,includingonewhichwasthemostpowerfulsince2006.Solarflaresarepowerfulburstsofradiationandtheydisruptedradiocommu

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Forty years on, Voyager still hurtles through space

Arewealone?Fortyyearsago,NASArocketscientistssoughttoanswerthisquestionbylaunchingtheVoyagerspacecraft,twinunmannedspaceshipsthatwouldtravelfurtherthananyhuman-

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China sets its sights to the FAR side of the Moon

On December 1, 2013, China launched the CHANG’E 4 lunar probe from Xichang Satellite Launch Center. Two weeks later, China became the third nation to successfully land on the surface of the moon.