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Where does space begin? Here's why it's closer than you think

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Where does space begin? Here's why it's closer than you think

The jump from Earth to space is often thought to happen 100 kilometres up, but it's time to think again and bring the boundary closer to home, says Jonathan McDowell

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UK announces plans for two spaceports that could see launches by 2021

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UK announces plans for two spaceports that could see launches by 2021

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space launch system

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Giant rocket simulator helps engineers tweak before first launch

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spacewalk

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Team moon vs team Mars: the battle over the future of NASA

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Earth

Space

Crewed missions to the moon and Mars need dreamers and doers

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Trump has directed the US military to establish a Space Force

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Trump has directed the US military to establish a Space Force

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Spiders can ‘fly’ because they make near-invisible paragliders

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Spiders can ‘fly’ because they make near-invisible paragliders

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Richard Branson

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Why Richard Branson's promises about space tourism are empty

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The New Horizons probe is awake and ready for its next flyby

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The New Horizons probe is awake and ready for its next flyby

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Astronauts in space

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Cosmic cooperation is just what space exploration needs

Questions such as whether Mars ever hosted life are too big to be left to any one nation – efforts to join forces on space missions are the future

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Physics

‘Impossible’ EM drive doesn’t seem to work after all

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China launched a satellite to help explore the moon’s far side

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ESA eyes Venus mission or space telescope to launch by 2030

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NASA sent a robot to the Red Planet to listen for marsquakes

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