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A crowdsourced science blog for Comic Relief: parallel worlds and sexy koalas

The blog author's brain, after it was submitted. Photograph: Felicity Cloake [Earlier this week, I asked for…

Mission to the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah – in pictures

The scientists, known as Crew 125 EuroMoonMars B mission, are in Utah to find out if humans can survive on the red planet. Here Melissa Battler, geologist and crew commander, tests the terrain in her space suit P...…

Astronomers find water vapour in atmosphere of distant planet

The Keck Observatory in Hawaii, where astronomers studied planet HR8799c, 130 light years away from Earth. Photograph: Bryan Lowry/Alamy …

Astronaut’s ‘spaceship life’ films become internet sensation – video

Astronaut's 'spaceship life' films become internet sensation – video | Science | guardian.co.uk …

Queen sends message of support to Canadian astronaut

Colonel Chris Hadfield takes advantage of weightlessness to juggle tomatoes on the International Space Station. Photograph: Nasa/Reuters …

Extremes by Kevin Fong – book review

The 'vomit comet' as mentioned in Kevin Fong's book Extremes. Not advisable to read about it while halfway over the Atlantic. Photograph: Nasa …

World’s most powerful telescopes begin observation – video

World's most powerful telescopes begin observation – video | Science | guardian.co.uk …

The Alma project – picture of the day

The Alma project - picture of the day | Science | guardian.co.uk …

Curiosity rover finds drinkable water on Mars, says Nasa – video

Curiosity rover finds drinkable water on Mars, says Nasa - video | Science | guardian.co.uk …

Nasa Curiosity Rover: new evidence that life may have existed on Mars

Nasa's Curiosity rover found rock dust drilled from sediments contained clay minerals that can only have formed in water. Photograph: Nasa/Handout …

Russia considers nuclear explosives to combat meteorites – video

Russia considers nuclear explosives to combat meteorites - video | World news | guardian.co.uk …

Starwatch: Look west for Comet PANSTARRS

Graphic: Finbarr Sheehy It is time to get excited about Comet PANSTARRS, the first of two comets…

Satellite eye on Earth: February 2013 – in pictures

An intense fire season in Australia continued in mid-January and on 18 January smoke from Australian bushfires could be seen across New Zealand. New Zealand also suffered from several major fires during January, and in this image ...…

Curiosity Mars rover in safe mode: are cosmic rays to blame?

Nasa's Curiosity rover began acting strangely last week before engineers put it in safe mode. Photograph: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/Rex Features …

SpaceX Dragon capsule docks with space station to deliver cargo

SpaceX capsule begins to dock at International Space Station – video

SpaceX's Dragon capsule nears the International Space Station on Sunday where it will deliver food supplies and science equipment to…

UK commits £88m to Chilean telescope ‘as big as all existing ones put together’

The European Extremely Large Telescope will study the Magellanic Cloud. Photograph: STScI/NASA/Corbis Britain has committed…

SpaceX resupply mission postponed due to technical problems after launch

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule lifting off from Cape Canaveral. Photograph: Tony Gray and Robert Murray/Nasa/EPA …

SpaceX launches rocket carrying supplies to International Space Station – video

A flyby of Venus, a dying galaxy and a birthday toast to Edgar Allan Poe – in pictures

In the week a millionaire promised a hair-raising roundtrip to Mars for a lucky couple, we let you swing by the planet Venus, glimpse the fate of the Milky Way and pay tribute to a master of the macabre on…

SpaceX scrambling to regain full control of Falcon 9 after launch proves shaky

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket developed problems with its thrusters soon after lift off from Cape Canaveral. Photograph: Michael Berrigan/REUTERS …

Mars mission poses greater risk to human life than Nasa would allow

On its return journey to Mars the spacecraft will be bombarded with galactic cosmic rays and less predictable potentially fatal solar energetic particles. Photograph:…

Mars Mission seeks married couple: in space, no one can hear you argue

Destination Mars: a drawing provided by Inspiration Mars of the type of a spacecraft that might take a couple to the red planet. Photograph:…

Mars mission to be funded by millionaire Dennis Tito – video

Dennis Tito, rocket scientist-turned-millionaire, announces plans to fund a mission to Mars. A couple will take a 501-day journey, named…