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  How many planets have we discovered? See all 786 illustrated to scale

  21 Jun 2012:

  Randall Munroe, author of award-winning webcomic XKCD, has created a scale-diagram of every planet identified by man to date. Browse all 786 in his original graphic

• Chinese astronauts complete successful docking at space lab

  18 Jun 2012: China's first female astronaut, Liu Yang, among Shenzhou 9 crew looking to move country towards building first space station

• China's Shenzhou 9 docks with orbiting module 200 miles above Earth

  18 Jun 2012: Capsule carrying China's first female astronaut and two male colleagues docks with Tiangong 1 module
  

• China's first female astronaut shows how 'women hold up half the sky'

  17 Jun 2012: Liu Yang becomes first Chinese woman in space in step towards country's ambition to build its own space station

• Space tourism: to infinity and beyond?

  17 Jun 2012:

  The first tourist flight into space is scheduled for next year, and it's cheaper than you'd think. Angelina Jolie, Stephen Hawking and Princess Beatrice have already booked their tickets, writes Robin McKie

• Secretive US military space shuttle lands itself at California base

  16 Jun 2012:

  Though air force says X-37B launches are for testing, classified payload has led to speculation that it contains a spy satellite

• China's first female astronaut enters space

  16 Jun 2012: Liu Yang and two male astronauts take off from Gobi desert on mission to help build space station within decade

• Patrick Moore: My family values

  16 Jun 2012: The astronomer and broadcaster talks about his family

• Spacewatch: Where does space begin?

  15 Jun 2012: Alan Pickup looks at how astronauts earn their wings

• What they didn't tell you about the transit of Venus

  12 Jun 2012:

  Rebekah Higgitt: Despite an avalanche of media coverage, few mentioned the main historical reason for measuring transits of Venus

• From the archive, 12 June 1959: Alien contact not ruled out by UK space programme

  12 Jun 2012:

  Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 12 June 1959: Members of the House of Lords debate ethics of space exploration

• 'Oldest galaxy' discovered using Hawaii telescope

  12 Jun 2012: Japanese astronomers on Hawaii say they have found a galaxy 12.91bn light years away

• China to send its first woman into space

  11 Jun 2012:

  Two fighter pilots battle it out for honour of joining manned mission to Tiangong-1 space lab

• Starwatch: The Clouds of Magellan

  10 Jun 2012:

  Alan Pickup says observations of the Clouds of Magellan has revealed much about stellar evolution

• Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe by Martin Rees – review

  8 Jun 2012:

  Tim Radford: The astronomer royal addresses the cosmic coincidence that six numbers in physics are just right for the emergence of galaxies, stars, chemistry and people

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