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• Siding Spring observatory under threat from coal seam gas light pollution

  21 Oct 2014: Astronomers warn light pollution from planned Santos coal seam gas developments in NSW may force Australia’s top observatory to close

• Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome: space launch tourism fails to take off

  21 Oct 2014: The Central Asian country has long talked of turning its famous launch site into a tourist destination, but international visitors are still being turned away. EurasiaNet.org reports

• Astronaut Chris Hadfield's amazing photos from space

  20 Oct 2014: The guitar-strumming spaceman Chris Hadfield is releasing a new book – You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes – featuring stunning images of the Earth captured while in orbit. Here are some of his best snaps

• Earth at risk after cuts close comet-spotting program, scientists warn

  20 Oct 2014: Astronomers sound alarm after closure of the Australian early-warning program that spotted the Siding Spring comet

• Comet Siding Spring skims close to Mars after million-year journey

  19 Oct 2014: Comet discovered just last year in Australia is plunging towards the sun after passing just 140,000km from Mars

• Comet Siding Spring set to have rare near miss with Mars

  19 Oct 2014: Fly-past of comet, thought to be debris from the creation of the solar system 4.5bn years ago, poses risk to Nasa spacecraft

• Secret space plane lands at US air force base after unknown two-year mission

  17 Oct 2014: Resembling a small space shuttle, the X-37B landed in southern California after 674 days in orbit on a secret mission

• Space talk: Ann Leckie and Caleb Scharf – books podcast

  Audio (32min 22sec), 17 Oct 2014:

  We turn our gaze to the stars, with multiple award-winning science fiction writer Ann Leckie and astrobiologist Caleb Scharf

• Who owns the moon?

  17 Oct 2014:

  Saskia Vermeylen: As states are not allowed to claim sovereign rights in outer space, land ownership on the moon and planets will in all likelihood be outlawed

• Dark matter may have been detected – streaming from the sun’s core

  16 Oct 2014: First direct detection of dark matter, thought to make up most of the matter in the universe, would be a historic breakthrough

• Space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock on the power of dreams – video

  Video (12min 28sec), 15 Oct 2014:

  Maggie Aderin-Pocock tells the 2014 Observer Ideas festival about her journey from a dyslexic girl at the back of the class to renowned space scientist

• Will Mars One’s volunteers get to live on the red planet? Yes, briefly

  15 Oct 2014: Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology reckon settlers on Mars would all be dead within a few months

• Hawaiian mission to Mars will explore the furthest frontiers of sustainability

  Guardian Professional, 15 Oct 2014: Six people are entering a geodesic dome in Hawaii for eight months to simulate a mission to Mars and push the boundaries of sustainability

• From the archive, 15 October 1969: Globetrotting Apollo wives talk moonshop

  15 Oct 2014: Originally published in the Guardian on 15 October 1969: Astronauts’ wives Janet Armstrong, Joan Aldrin, and Pat Collins are perfectly able to take this public parade in their stride

• Top 10 science and tech books for October: from Brian Cox and wacky Mother Nature to space and pizza

  14 Oct 2014: From the celebration of life on earth and quantum mechanics to the science of dining and how to serve food properly at a party

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