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Parts of stricken Mars probe Phobos-Grunt may strike Earth
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10 Jan 2012:
Indian ocean atolls and the Rocky mountains were among the images captured by European Space Agency and Nasa satellites last month
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18 Dec 2011:
There were extraterrestrial shenanigans, female orgasms, Fukushima, the space shuttle and the Higgs. Relive the defining scientific stories of the past 12 months
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8 Jan 2012:
Peter Walker: Scientists gather in Cambridge to mark the 70th birthday of the Cambridge University physicist
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8 Jan 2012: Scientist who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at 21 to deliver rare public lecture in Cambridge
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3 Jan 2012: Alan Pickup looks at Comet Lovejoy which provided a memorable show for observers in the southern hemisphere
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1 Jan 2012: Russian space agency Roscosmos says 200kg fragments may survive re-entry but expects toxic fuel to vaporise
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30 Dec 2011:
Nearly 40 years after Nasa last did it, Chinese space agency announces its 'preliminary plan for a human lunar landing'
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25 Dec 2011:
Alan Pickup says the January evening sky is bursting with stellar interest
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25 Dec 2011: Jonathan Jones: The sense of new images hitting our eyes from everywhere is one of the most remarkable aspects of 2011
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21 Dec 2011: The winter solstice is usually on 21 December – but occasionally it falls on 22 December
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20 Dec 2011: Alan Pickup looks at Britain's evening sky for the Christmas and New Year
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20 Dec 2011:
The newly discovered exoplanets are the first ever detected outside the Solar System that are Earth's size or smaller
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17 Dec 2011:
From Einstein-defying neutrinos to the discovery of an Earth-like planet: science editor Robin McKie on the year's biggest stories
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