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NewsYahoo News UK'Once-in-a-lifetime' green comet to light up the skies: how to see it tonight
The comet could become so bright it will be visible to the naked eye as it makes its closest pass to Earth tonight. Here's how to see it
ScienceYahoo News UKWatch incredible moment Nasa crashes fridge-sized satellite into moving asteroid
The pioneering NASA spacecraft has made make science fiction a reality - or at least that’s the theory.
ScienceYahoo News UKNasa identifies 13 'dark areas' of the moon where astronauts will walk
The US space agency hopes to land the first woman on the lunar surface by 2025 or 2026.
ScienceYahoo News UKAncient Martian meteorite ‘could help to explain why there is life on Earth’
A Martian meteorite from the dawn of the solar system 4.48 billion years ago – known as Black Beauty – could help to explain why there is life on Earth and not on Mars.
ScienceYahoo News UKHuge 11 mile-wide comet to pass Earth next week
A huge 11-mile-wide chunk of ice which was the furthest-out active comet ever spotted in our solar system is hurtling towards Earth and will make its closest pass next week.
ScienceYahoo News UKNasa launches nanosatellite in preparation for the Gateway lunar station
Nasa launched a tiny CubeSat this week to test and orbit which will soon be used by Gateway, a lunar space station.
ScienceYahoo News UKSpace tourism ‘could be worse for the planet than the air travel industry’
Space tourism has been spearheaded by smiling billionaires such as Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson - but it could be an environmental disaster.
ScienceYahoo News UKNineteen-mile-wide crater on Mars looks like a huge eye
A stunning image captured by a spacecraft orbiting Mars shows a crater that looks like a huge, unblinking eye on the Red Planet's surface.
ScienceYahoo News UK‘Building blocks of life’ found in asteroid dust by Japanese space probe
Multiple amino acids - known as ‘the building blocks of life - have been detected in dust brought back from an asteroid by Japan’s Hayabusa2 space probe.
ScienceYahoo News UKCould aliens (or humans) travel to nearby stars without using spaceships?
A scientific paper this week posits the idea that humans (and indeed extraterrestrials) could simply pilot ‘rogue planets’ through the universe.
ScienceYahoo News UKGiant magnetic wave found in Earth's core by orbiting satellite
Volcanic eruptions remind us that the inside of our planet isn’t exactly tranquil - but there’s plenty of completely unknown stuff happening beneath our feet.
ScienceYahoo News UKMile-wide asteroid to hurtle past Earth this week
The space rock, known as 7335 (1989 JA) won’t fly past particularly near to Earth - the closest it will get is 2.5 million miles, ten times the distance between the Earth and the moon.
ScienceYahoo News UKNasa lander spots ‘biggest-ever earthquake on another planet’ on Mars
A Nasa lander has detected the biggest earthquake ever spotted on another planet - rumbling beneath the dusty surface of Mars.
ScienceYahoo News UKNew hope that alien life could thrive in oceans on Jupiter and Saturn's moons
Could alien life forms lurk in the icy oceans of Jupiter and Saturn's moons such as Titan, Ganymede or Europa in our own solar system?
ScienceYahoo News UKScientists hunt for meteorite which 'fell on Shropshire'
Scientists believe fragments weighing up to 500g – the weight of a loaf of bread – may have fallen somewhere south of Shrewsbury.
ScienceYahoo On This DayThe second giant leap: When mankind walked on the moon again in 'other' Apollo mission
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's crew may have been the first ones to do it, but just months later a second crew of astronauts walked on the moon in 1969.
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SpaceX crew marks momentous launch
A SpaceX rocket carried four astronauts into orbit Wednesday night, including the 600th person to reach space in 60 years.
CelebrityYahoo Celebrity UKWilliam Shatner says Prince William is 'missing the point' on space travel
The actor said the royal has got the wrong idea.
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William Shatner plans to go to space
Star Trek’s Captain Kirk is rocketing into space this month — boldly going where no other sci-fi actors have gone.
CelebrityYahoo CelebrityMila Kunis axed Ashton Kutcher's 'irresponsible' space trip because she thought he'd die
"The thing's going to explode and you're going to die — and you're going to leave me with the babies,'" Mila Kunis told Ashton Kutcher.
CelebrityYahoo CelebrityWhy Ashton Kutcher sold his ticket to space after talking with Mila Kunis
Mila Kunis told Ashton Kutcher it's "not a smart family decision" to go to space with young kids.
ScienceYahoo News UKNASA spots powerful X-Class solar flare for the first time in five years
The flare produced a pulse of X-rays, which hit Earth’s atmosphere and blacked out shortwave radio signals over the Atlantic.
ScienceYahoo News UKJeff Bezos spaceflight: 5 ways travelling into space can change the human body
Travelling to space – particularly on longer missions – can have serious (and surreal) effects on the human body.
ScienceYahoo News UKMysterious ‘glow’ from the centre of the Milky Way could be explained at last
The centre of our own galaxy is emitting a mysterious glow which scientists have puzzled over for a decade - but a new paper suggests a culprit.
ScienceAssociated PressMars rover's giant parachute carried secret message
The huge parachute used by NASA’s Perseverance rover to land on Mars contained a secret message, thanks to a puzzle lover on the spacecraft team.
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