Japan’s first robot astronaut is both useful and adorable
At just 13 inches tall, cheery-faced Kirobo is designed to help astronauts cope with loneliness during missions.
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The UN finally has a plan for dealing with dangerous asteroids
Surprisingly, until a vote last week there was no unified international programme for dealing with the possibility of an asteroid…
ByJapanese scientists successfully tested a ‘space cannon’ this week
Not content with merely breaking the bonds of gravity and touching the face of God, now we want to fire…
ByHurrah, we’ve found an asteroid that might kill us all in 2032
2013 TV135 is meant to be a 410m space rock of death, but it's OK - there's a 99.998% chance…
ByWhere does the moon come from?
Whether we’re trying to find out where it came from, or how to siphon off some of its energy, grappling…
ByChristianity and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
A review of Science, Religion and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by David Wilkinson.
ByLet’s go alien-hunting
A group of researchers is lobbying for access to £1m of the UK’s space budget. Why not?
ByCommander Chris Hadfield says goodbye to the International Space Station through the medium of David Bowie
Highest music video since Snoop Dogg's last one.
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Laurie Penny on Mars: Modern life is science fiction – but would you dare go on a one-way mission to Mars?
Would you sign up for a perilous journey, knowing that you’ve got just one shot at making the human race…
ByKepler mission announces two exoplanets in the habitable “zone”
The planets are the right temperature and size to support liquid water.
ByWatch the sun exploding in glorious 1080p HD
A beautiful NASA video of coronal rain.
ByHow to take a self-portrait if you’re a robot on mars
Curiosity has learned about the Myspace angle.
ByIDS and the skivers from Mars
Why cutting money from benefits might not save anything in the long run.
ByIran’s Space Monkey is the Saddest Monkey You Will See Today
Unless you have looked up pictures of other space monkeys.
ByNASA signs $17m deal for ISS expansion
Commercial partnership will deliver the new module.
ByHeavens above: the achievement of Curiosity and the Hubble Space Telescope
Long may our exploration of the heavens continue.
ByMan jumps from space: giffed
Today, a man jumped off a balloon 36km up in the air, freefalling from space for almost four and a…
ByDoes the Earth need a space fence?
Being hit by space junk is rubbish.
ByWill space mining become a reality?
Planetary Resources to Soviet meteor diamonds and beyond.
ByRemember Neil Armstrong with space exploration that actually matters
Don't put someone on Mars just for the sake of it. Build a space elevator and democratise the final frontier.
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