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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.

SpaceX Starlink: The controversial satellite constellation © SpaceX/Flickr
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SpaceX Starlink The controversial satellite constellation

What would alien life actually look like? © Getty Images
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What would alien life actually look like?

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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?

Cooking up alien atmospheres © Getty Images
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How synthetic atmospheres could help us hunt for alien life

Mission into the Sun © Andy Potts
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How the Parker Solar Probe will ‘touch the Sun’

What happened at Bluedot festival 2019? – Libby Jackson, Tom Shakespeare and Danielle George © Lucas Sinclair
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Libby Jackson, Tom Shakespeare and Danielle George What happened at Bluedot festival 2019?

How many extrasolar planets do we know about? © Getty Images
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How far would we need to travel to leave our Galaxy?

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Space exploration: how might the next 50 years progress? © Mitchell Stuart
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Space exploration Where will be be in 50 years?

How would our Solar System be different if Jupiter had been big enough to be a star? © NASA
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How would our Solar System be different if Jupiter had been big enough to be a star?

Who will be next to land on the Moon? © ESA
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Who will be next to land on the Moon?

Why we need to go back to the Moon © NASA
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The Apollo programme Why we need to go back to the Moon

'Oumuamua: Why did we think it was aliens? © Getty Images
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Reality Check Why did we think 'Oumuamua was an alien probe?

How 22kg of lunar rocks delivered by Apollo 11 changed our understanding of how the Moon formed (Apollo 11 brought back the first samples from the Moon – seen here arriving at the Lunar Receiving Lab in Houston, Texas © Getty Images)
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Apollo 11 How 22kg of lunar rocks changed our understanding of how the Moon formed