Space
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Tim Peake returns to Earth on ‘best ride ever’International Space Station mission ends as British astronaut and two crewmates land in Kazakhstan in Soyuz capsule
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Tim Peake's time in space is drawing to a close, but he'll remain a starThe astronaut has been in the headlines constantly since his selection in 2009. But press campaigns and social media are only part of the reason for his success
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Space race: how Nasa became a cult style referenceFrom Buzz Aldrin to Versace, all things space are now on the radar of fashion’s mission’s control. Forget DHL – NASA is your logo of choice
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Back to Earth with a thump: Tim Peake prepares to bid farewell to the ISSAstronauts Chris Hadfield and Samantha Christoforetti describe the ‘wild ride’ in the Soyuz capsue and adjustments to life back on Earth that await Tim Peake
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SpaceX rocket booster crashes onto Atlantic platform – videoSpaceX rocket’s reusable main-stage booster crashes onto Atlantic platform, where scientists had hoped it would land safely
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Second gravitational wave detected from ancient black hole collisionFollowing February’s historic announcement, LIGO has again spotted ripples in the fabric of spacetime, from the collision of a second set of black holes
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Astronaut Tim Peake's stunning photos of the Earth – interactive mapExplore astronaut Tim Peake’s stunning aerial shots of our planet with this interactive map created by Esri UK
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Mystery alien rock unearthed in Swedish quarryPiece of meteorite may have resulted form a mid-space collision between vast asteroids more than 470m years ago
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Set up national space programme or risk UK being left behind, MPs warnNational space programme would see UK take more leading roles in ESA missions and spur technological breakthroughs, says Commons committee
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New Jupiter-like planet is largest yet discovered orbiting two starsSpotted using data from the Kepler space telescope, the gas giant, dubbed Kepler-1647b, has one of the longest orbits recorded for a transiting planet
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Blazing star of the Northern CrownStarwatch High above Mars and Saturn in the increasingly twilit night sky is a fiery star that could blow at any time
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Another first for Tim Peake as he gets award in space from QueenBritish astronaut is companion of order of St Michael and St George and dedicates it to team who make his mission possible
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Milky Way no longer visible to one third of humanity, light pollution atlas showsScientists describe ‘cultural loss of unprecedented magnitude’ as global atlas reveals extent of light pollution in the world’s skies
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Light pollution atlas shows areas of Earth that cannot see the stars – videoA team of scientists at the National Centers for Environmental Information in Boulder, Colorado have produced a digital atlas of the Earth that shows the levels of light pollution
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Permission to land: US draws up rules for commercial moon travelGovernment agencies work on solution to cover regulatory gap governing space activities by private companies
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Tim Peake prepares for return to EarthSpacewatch After 186 days in orbit, British astronaut Tim Peake will make the descent to Kazakhstan where he will be trained to live with gravity once more
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Satellite eye on Earth: May 2016 – in picturesRolling sand dunes of Arabia, thinning glaciers of Greenland and wildfires of Fort McMurray in Canada were among the images captured by European Space Agency and Nasa satellites last month
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Scientists get first look at supermassive black hole 'eating' gas cloudsThe observation, made accidentally by astronomers in Chile, provides the first direct evidence for the theory that black holes feed on clouds of gas
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Tim Peake: 'I miss the rain' ahead of return to Earth – videoBritish astronaut Tim Peake says it will take several months to fully adjust to life back on earth
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Gravitational spacecraft LISA Pathfinder opens Einstein’s universeThe European Space Agency’s technology-testing mission LISA Pathfinder is working five times better than its design specification, opening Einstein’s gravitational universe for investigation from space
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A planet on steroids. How Juno could solve the riddle of JupiterThe largest planet in the solar system may finally give up its secrets thanks to a new probe
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Mice in space, but doubts about orbit – archive4 June 1959: No signal received amid US attempts to bring mice back alive
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Universe is expanding up to 9% faster than we thought, say scientistsMeasurements taken by Hubble space telescope conflict with studies of radiation left over from Big Bang – fuelling theories of ‘dark energy’ and mystery particles
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Nasa cameras capture fireball lighting up Arizona sky – videoA 5ft wide meteor weighing a few tonnes entered Earth’s atmosphere over Arizona early Thursday morning lighting up the pre-dawn sky
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New radio map of Jupiter reveals ammonia plumes beneath cloudsThe nature of the gas giant’s atmosphere has long been something of a puzzle, but radio wave data has allowed scientists to peek beneath planet’s clouds
On Earth, this was a grim week ... your mission offers hope, Tim Peake