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Hurricane swirling around Saturn’s north pole – video
Nasa's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists with detailed views of a vast hurricane raging around Saturn's north pole. The eye…
Virgin’s SpaceShipTwo makes test flight as space tourism moves one step closer
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic intends to take passengers into space later this year. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images …
China’s Shenzhou 10 spacecraft transported by train – video
China's Shenzhou 10 rocket is being transported from Beijing to the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, in the northwest province of…
China: Mars residency hopefuls sign up for emigration project – video
Recruitment has launched for a project that will see two men and two women on a one-way trip to Mars.…
China launches natural disaster-predicting satellite – video
Chinese space engineers have launched a satellite that can predict natrual disasters and improve national security. The carrier, a Long…
Can very fast spaceships see each other?
The Enterprise in Star Trek … invisible? Two spaceships head towards each other, each travelling at 0.6…
Progress 51 rocket lifts off for International Space Station – video
The unmanned Russian Progress 51 rocket is launched on Wednesday, beginning its cargo mission to the International Space Station. Leaving…
‘Dark lightning’: the unseen energy of thunderstorms
Electrical phenomenon ... lightning strikes over the Mojave Valley. Photograph: KPA/Zuma/Rex Features A lightning bolt is one…
Wanted: volunteers to spend life on Mars – video
Speaking in New York, the CEO of Mars One, Bas Lansdorp, launches a search for volunteers to spend the rest…
Space debris must be cleared, warn European experts – video
The European Space Agency warns that space debris must be removed to prevent potentially catastrophic collisions with operational spacecrafts and…
‘Meteorite’ in sky above Argentina – video
Video footage purports to show a meteorite in the sky above Santiago del Estero, Argentina, on Saturday evening. Video of…
Life on Mars to become a reality in 2023, Dutch firm claims
Nasa's Curiosity rover lands on Mars in 2012. Photograph: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/Rex Features A few months before he died,…
How astronaut Chris Hadfield showed Berlin’s ongoing struggle for unification
Colonel Chris Hadfield's photograph of Berlin at night shows a divide between the whiter lights of former west Berlin and the yellower lights of…
Spacewatch: Will Nasa bag an asteroid?
An artist's concept of the proposed Asteroid Retrieval Mission – that would capture and relocate a Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) to high lunar orbit.…
A reality TV Mars landing may be silly, but at least it’s on the right track | Steven Poole
'In Mars One, the contestants are expected to die on set, which is a fate arguably even worse than having Simon Cowell touch you.'…
Satellite Eye on Earth: March 2013 – in pictures
Marine stratocumulus clouds stretch across the southern Indian Ocean on 11 March, as a striking band of clouds run roughly north-west to south-east over the open ocean. Earth's boundary layer extends upward from the land or ocean ...…
Starwatch: Cassiopeia and the comet
Graphic: Finbarr Sheehy The crescent Moon stands in the W at nightfall on the 15th, above…
How the dawn of time has a promising future in research
The European Space Agency's Planck satellite is studying the cosmic wave background, the light left over from the Big Bang. Photograph: European Space Agency/MCT…
Life on Earth… but not as we know it
Animal figures cut into desert varnish by Native Americans in Utah. Photograph: BWAC Images/Alamy Across the world's…
Nasa aims to capture and study asteroid in effort to protect Earth
Asteroid 2012 DA14 and the Eta Carinae Nebula, with the white box highlighting the asteroid's path Photograph: Nasa …
Anne Hathaway contemplates Interstellar mission
Star quality … Anne Hathaway. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters Anne Hathaway is aiming to reunite with Christopher Nolan…
How geolocation technology is helping save lives in the developing world
A nurse checks a pregnant woman's blood pressure at a maternity hospital in Nigeria. Photograph: Akintunde Akinleye …
Nasa plans asteroid rodeo to lasso 25ft space rock for research
Nasa hopes to lasso an asteroid. Photograph: Frank Whitney/Getty Images Nasa is going on an asteroid rodeo.…
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