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Meteoroid impact triggers bright flash

The explosion was the biggest seen since Nasa began watching the moon for meteoroid impacts about eight years ago.

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Russia retrieves animals from space

A capsule filled with animals returned from a month's mission in orbit with data scientists hope will pave the way for a manned flight to Mars.

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‘We hit the Earth just like a car crash’

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield recalls his safe return from a five-month mission to space.

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Bion-M, part of the Russia's space program, is to conduct fundamental and applied research in space biology, physiology and biotechnology while in orbit.

Russia retrieves animals from space
May 20 2013 at 09:52

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Hundreds of meteoroid impacts on the moon, detected by Nasa's lunar monitoring program, are pictured in this undated Nasa handout photo.

Meteoroid impact triggers bright flash
May 20 2013 at 09:52

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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield after the Russian Soyuz space capsule landed some 150km southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan.

‘We hit the Earth just like a car crash’
May 17 2013 at 08:57

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This undated publicity film image released by Paramount Pictures shows, Zachary Quinto, left, as Spock and Chris Pine as Kirk in a scene in the movie, Star Trek Into Darkness.

Star Trek premieres in space
May 16 2013 at 18:00

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Deployable CanSat, a soda-can sized model of a satellite, floats back down to earth on a parachute following its test launch at All Nations University in Koforidua, Ghana.

Ghana students reach for the stars
May 16 2013 at 09:12

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This file artist's rendering provided by Nasa shows the Kepler space telescope.

Planet-hunting telescope crippled
May 16 2013 at 09:11

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File photo: A China-made Long March 3B rocket heads for space from the launching center in Xichang in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

Missile hits highest suborbital level since ‘76
May 15 2013 at 09:30

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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo flies over the Mojave Desert in California shortly before successfully completing a test flight that broke the sound barrier.

Nothing but blue skies with Virgin Galactic?
May 14 2013 at 18:00

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The Russian Soyuz space capsule, carrying US astronaut Tom Marshburn, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, lands 150km southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan.

Space cowboy falls down to Earth
May 14 2013 at 09:19

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Video: Astronaut does Bowie on ISS
May 13 2013 at 13:40

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