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  China sends new satellite into space

  Xinhua. Taiyuan | Updated at 03:48pm on November 28, 2019

  China sent a new Earth observation satellite into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in northern China’s Shanxi Province at 7:52am on Thursday Beijing...

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  Star leaving Heart of Darkness to leave Milky Way soon

  New Age Online | Updated at 03:06pm on November 14, 2019

  A group of astronomers, led by Sergey Koposov of Carnegie Mellon University's McWilliams Centre for Cosmology, has spotted a star leaving the Milky Way at...

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  Artificial meat now made in space, coming to a supermarket near you

  Agence France-Presse . New York | Updated at 12:08am on October 12, 2019

  Creating meat from cells is no longer the realm of science fiction: a Russian cosmonaut did it aboard the International Space Station, and it is...

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  Brad Pitt talks weightlessness on phone call to ISS

  Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 12:00am on September 18, 2019

  When Brad Pitt called the International Space Station (ISS) Monday to talk to American astronaut Nick Hague, the conversation turned to the unexpected consequences of...

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  Raspberry pi takes Earth selfie

  New Age Online | Updated at 12:14pm on September 06, 2019

  A neat image of Planet Earth, showing another beautiful day in the Mediterranean. — BBC photo   The UK satellite company SSTL attached a Raspberry...

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  NASA investigating first crime committed in space

  Agence-France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 12:00am on August 26, 2019

  US space agency NASA is investigating what may be the first crime committed in outer space, The New York Times reported Saturday. Astronaut Anne McClain...

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  Rolling Stones have space rock named after them

  Reuters | Updated at 12:00am on August 25, 2019

  The Rolling Stones have rocked stages around the world in their more than 50-year career. But now their influence has gone into space after NASA’s...

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  Star orbiting massive black hole lends support to Einstein's theory

  Reuters. Washington | Updated at 11:14pm on July 26, 2019

  Observations of light coming from a star zipping in orbit around the humongous black hole at the centre of our galaxy have provided fresh evidence...

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  India launches Moon mission

  Agence France-Presse . Sriharikota, India | Updated at 06:54pm on July 22, 2019

  India on Monday launched a low-cost rocket on a historic bid to put a landing craft on the surface of the Moon and join an...

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  India set for fresh Moon mission

  Agence France-Presse . Sriharikota, India | Updated at 08:36pm on July 21, 2019

  India will make a second attempt Monday to send a landmark spacecraft to the Moon after an apparent fuel leak forced last week’s launch to...