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We're hurtling into a new region of interstellar space. What now?

As we speed towards a mysterious new bubble of interstellar space, new insights are revealing its exotic chemistry, strange waves and vast bubbles, and their ramifications for life on Earth

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

China's space station module Wentian and a Long March-5B Y3 carrier rocket at the launching area of the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on 18 July 2022 in Wenchang, Hainan Province of China

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China prepares to launch laboratory module to Tiangong space station

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Man on the moon? Why we said Apollo 11 was an empty, obsessional quest

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Man on the moon? Why we said Apollo 11 was an empty, obsessional quest

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Future moon missions probably won't carry astronauts - here's why

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Future moon missions probably won't carry astronauts - here's why

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Astronaut on Moon

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Moon rocks can tell us where life could thrive beyond the solar system

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Astronauts in mock cockpit

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Apollo 11 space mission: Diabolically hard practice got us to the moon

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First moon plants sprout in China's Chang'e 4 biosphere experiment

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First moon plants sprout in China's Chang'e 4 biosphere experiment

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Why an orbiting moon station is the worst idea of the new space age

US Vice President Mike Pence says a habitable base orbiting the moon will be built and in use by 2024. It's a pointless distraction, warns Mars Society president Robert Zubrin

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Don't miss: amateur surgery, aqua-activism and a twisted Turing test

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Trio of stars shows Einstein is still right about relativity

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Australia is launching a space agency, but what will it do?

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Colonists could use genetically modified bacteria to settle Mars

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