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Human and robotic exploration image of the week: Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface, taken by…
50 Years Ago Apollo 11 Launches Into History
At 8:32 a.m. EST, July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 launched from Florida on a mission to…
ESA confirms asteroid will miss Earth in 2019
Asteroid 2006 QV89, a small object 20 to 50 metres in diameter, was in the news lately…
Gaia starts mapping our galaxy’s bar
The first direct measurement of the bar-shaped collection of stars at the centre of our Milky…
Revealing the galactic bar
This colour chart shows the distribution of 150 million stars in the Milky Way probed using…
ESA identifies demand for satellites around the Moon
Dozens of very different commercial and institutional missions to the Moon are planned for the coming…
Gut microbes protect against neurologic damage from viral infections
Gut microbes produce compounds that prime immune cells to destroy harmful viruses in the brain and…
The Making Of Apollo's Command Module: 2 Engineers Recall Tragedy And Triumph
It was the only part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft that came back from the moon.…