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Our place in the Universe is but the tiniest speck on the map of all known matter. We're out there, floating around in the big, wide mystery that is space.

NASA's InSight digging into Mars after 7-month setback © NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP
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NASA’s InSight digging into Mars after 7-month setback

Christina Koch, right, and, Jessica Meir pose on the ISS (Nasa)
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First all-female spacewalk finally confirmed for this afternoon

New NASA spacesuit revealed in preparation for return to the Moon (Kristine Davis, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wearing a ground prototype of NASA’s new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), is seen during a demonstration of the suit, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The xEMU suit improves on the suits previous worn on the Moon during the Apollo era and those currently in use for spacewalks outside the International Space Station and will be worn by first woman and next man as they explore the Moon as part of the agency’s Artemis program © NASA/Joel Kowsky)
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New NASA spacesuit revealed in preparation for return to the Moon

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The weird worlds alien life could potentially survive on © Getty Images
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Extraterrestrial life The weird worlds alien life could potentially survive on

Could ‘dark matter’ just be dead stars and planets floating in the depths of space? © Getty Images
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Could ‘dark matter’ just be dead stars and planets floating in the depths of space?

How far do we travel through space every day? © Getty Images
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How far do we travel through space every day?

Alexei Leonov, the first person to perform a spacewalk, dies aged 85 © Space Frontiers/Getty Images
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Alexei Leonov Cosmonaut who made first spacewalk dies aged 85

5 fantastic solar system facts © Getty Images
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Solar System facts 5 things everyone should know about our cosmic neighbourhood

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Space exploration The unintended consequences of privatising space

Peter Ward
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2019 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for understanding evolution of the Universe and “Earth’s place in the cosmos” (Nobel:PA)
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2019 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for understanding evolution of the Universe and “Earth’s place in the cosmos”

New moons discovered orbiting Saturn takes total to 82 © Nasa/PA
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New moons discovered orbiting Saturn takes total to 82

Why the sky is dark at night © Getty Images
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Olbers’ Paradox Why the sky is dark at night

Do objects in the Universe moving towards us show a blue shift? © Getty Images
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Do objects in the Universe moving towards us show a blue shift?

How to smash an asteroid
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How to smash an asteroid

How do you build a successful space mission? – Mark McCaughrean (Comet and 'Churymoon' © ESA/Rosetta/MPS/OSIRIS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA/J. Roger (CC BY-SA 4.0))
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Mark McCaughrean How do you build a successful space mission?