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If you thought you’d seen it all with the Rosetta mission, next year promises a Mars mission and an exploration of Pluto
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Nasa successfully launches its new Orion spacecraft on Friday for an unmanned trial run around Earth
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Big data research facility, dedicated to the codebreaker, will be at centre of new Knowledge Quarter in central London
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Parasitic worms in the brain and geckos in space. Have you kept up with all the science news?
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Evgen wants to raise up to £20m for clinical studies of experimental Sulforadex tablet to treat brain haemorrhage, prostate and breast cancer
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The Japanese Hayabusa 2 space probe launched on Wednesday, setting off on a six-year round trip to an asteroid
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Kevin Schurer and Turi King of the University of Leicester explain a mitochondrial DNA analysis confirming with almost 100% certainty that the bones found under a car park in Leicester are those of King Richard III
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Nasa successfully launches its new Orion spacecraft on Friday for an unmanned trial run around Earth
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The Japanese Hayabusa 2 space probe launched on Wednesday, setting off on a six-year round trip to an asteroid
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This month’s pick of the best space-related imagery has a theme: pareidolia, or the human tendency to see meaningful shapes and patterns where none exists
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Nasa successfully launches its new Orion spacecraft on Friday for an unmanned trial run around Earth
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The Japanese Hayabusa 2 space probe launched on Wednesday, setting off on a six-year round trip to an asteroid
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With the autumnal weather in recent weeks bringing mushrooms and truffles out in great numbers, we’ve asked you to share photos of the ones you have discovered in your garden and when out walking. Here are some of our favourites
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A group of friends send a lamb chop into space using a a GoPro camera and a weather balloon to capture its journey from east London into space
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Mobile phone footage from outside the Google offices in London purports to show the effects of a powerful band of static electricity
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A Russian Soyuz rocket has safely docked and delivered a crew to the International Space Station
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Scientists from the European Space Agency say the lander Philae has discovered organic molecules containing carbon – the basis of life on Earth
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Lunar Mission One launches a crowdfunding drive on Wednesday, which offers donors a chance to have a digital memory box buried on the moon
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Dr Matt Taylor, the British scientist involved in the Rosetta mission, cries as he makes an apology for wearing an 'offensive' shirt
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After the lander’s dramatic landing on Wednesday, the European Space Agency has released pictures of where it first touched down before bouncing, and of its descent
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The European Space Agency has released the first image from the Philae lander moments before it touched down on a comet
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After a 10-year journey, the Philae probe has landed on the Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet after being launched from the space probe Rosetta
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The European Space Agency Mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, celebrates as the Philae lander, dispatched from its mothership Rosetta, touches down on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
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The European Space Agency (ESA) explains the process of landing the Philae lander on the surface of comet 67P
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On Wednesday, Rosetta will attempt to drop a lander called Philae onto the surface of a comet. This is the story of the European Space Agency’s extraordinary decade-long mission in images
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The chemicals that give your food flavour and colour
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The European Space Agency releases an animation illustrating next week's planned landing on a comet of a robotic probe
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