# space - Friday 22 February, 2019
Meanwhile, Israel began a mission to make its first Moon landing.
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# space - Thursday 14 February, 2019
The rover has been out of contact since a dust storm on the Red Planet.
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# space - Tuesday 12 February, 2019
The company is in the red, as it were.
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# space - Wednesday 9 January, 2019
The waves were discovered by Canadian scientists, who cannot explain their origin.
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# space - Thursday 3 January, 2019
China plans to send its Chang’e 5 probe to the moon next year.
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A supermoon later this month is the first of three in a row.
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# space - Tuesday 1 January, 2019
The cosmic object – known as Ultima Thule – is about the size of the US capital, Washington, and orbits in the Kuiper Belt about a billion miles beyond Pluto.
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# space - Friday 28 December, 2018
The spacecraft’s closest approach to the cosmic object, known as Ultima Thule, comes 1 January at 5.33am.
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# space - Tuesday 18 December, 2018
The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn’s magnetic field.
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# space - Thursday 13 December, 2018
“This is a momentous day and I could not be more proud of our teams,” Richard Branson said.
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# space - Tuesday 11 December, 2018
Voyager 2 is now more than 18 billion kilometres from Earth.
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# space - Tuesday 27 November, 2018
A lovely sight this grim morning.
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# space - Sunday 21 October, 2018
This quiz is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind*.
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# space - Saturday 20 October, 2018
The BepiColombo blasted off from French Guiana earlier today.
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# space - Thursday 11 October, 2018
The rocket landed in Kazakhstan.
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# space - Tuesday 2 October, 2018
The American awards recognise excellence in the television industry.
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# space - Friday 24 August, 2018
The asteroid named Bennu is about the size of a mountain.
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# space - Tuesday 14 August, 2018
On 3 August the agency named the first nine astronauts who will fly to space on Boeing and SpaceX vehicles in 2019.
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# space - Thursday 9 August, 2018
Nasa, by comparison, is an independent and civilian branch of government.
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# space - Friday 27 July, 2018
The lunar eclipse coincides with a close passing of Mars in tonight’s sky.
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# space - Tuesday 17 July, 2018
The Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered the first four of Jupiter’s moons in 1610.
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# space - Saturday 14 July, 2018
Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are racing to be the first to finish their tests.
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# space - Saturday 30 June, 2018
No injuries were reported in the spectacular explosion.
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# space - Sunday 13 May, 2018
Arralis CEO Barry Lunn is working towards the motoring industry’s ‘iPhone moment’.
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# space - Saturday 5 May, 2018
Motorists are being asked to give cyclists space this weekend.
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# space - Sunday 29 April, 2018
“This is the first time we’ve shown shape and age are related for all kinds of galaxies.”
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# space - Monday 9 April, 2018
The new telescope will be 10 times more powerful than the Hubble telescope and help us observe the first stars in the universe.
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# space - Wednesday 4 April, 2018
The supply capsule launched on Monday from Florida.
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# space - Monday 2 April, 2018
The remote location of its landing made it difficult for stargazers to witness the event.
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# space - Friday 30 March, 2018
The discovery could revise or even upend theories of how galaxies are formed.
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# space - Tuesday 27 March, 2018
One expert said the odds of being struck by space debris are 10 million times less likely than getting hit by lightening.
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# space - Friday 23 February, 2018
Supporters and detractors of the new law have spoken of their frustration over the new bill.
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# space - Wednesday 10 January, 2018
His Russian captain suspected that 9cm was “too much elongation”. He was right.
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# space - Sunday 7 January, 2018
Tabby’s Star has been inexplicably dimming and brightening sporadically like no other for years.
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# space - Tuesday 2 January, 2018
# space - Sunday 31 December, 2017
One small step for kebab, one giant leap for kebab-kind.
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# space - Friday 22 December, 2017
He was famously photographed in 1984 flying with a hefty spacewalker’s jetpack.
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# space - Monday 11 December, 2017
Budget issues have curtailed similar efforts by other Republican presidents.
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# space - Monday 4 December, 2017
Some cloud hampered things for Irish stargazers.
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# space - Sunday 26 November, 2017
Eirsat-1 will hitch a ride to the ISS before it’s released into space.
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