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    The latest news from the spacecraft helping us explore the cosmos, and the historical missions that paved the way.

    An image of 2MASS J17554042+6551277 captured by the James Webb Space Telescope as part of JWST’s mirror alignment process. Credit: NASA/STScl
    Missions

    James Webb Space Telescope’s tantalising first images

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    What is space junk and why is it a big problem?

    A replica ExoMars rover during a test drive around the Mars Terrain Simulator at ALTEC, Turin, Italy. Credit: ESA/Thales Alenia Space
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    Rosalind Franklin Rover launch suspended over war in Ukraine

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    Artist's impression showing NASA's Lunar Gateway and the Orion spacecraft at the Moon as part of the Artemis programme
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    How NASA’s Artemis programme will return humans to the Moon

    Space law expert Chris Newman, Northumbria University
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    NASA's SOFIA flying observatory
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    How NASA’s SOFIA flying observatory views the Universe in infrared

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    9 missions heading to the Moon in 2022

    International space station in earth orbit
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    How the ISS is being retired, and what will happen to it

    NASA’s Space Launch System with the Orion spacecraft atop, at Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, in the early hours of 18 March 2022. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
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    NASA rolls out Artemis Space Launch System at Kennedy Space Center

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    Why go to Mars? Because it would be the trip of a lifetime

    Beagle 2 lead scientist Colin Pillinger pictured with a model of Beagle 2 at the Lander Operations Planning Centre on 27 November 2003 in Milton Keynes, UK. Credit: Scott Barbour/Getty Images
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    What happened to Beagle 2?

    A replica ExoMars rover during a test drive around the Mars Terrain Simulator at ALTEC, Turin, Italy. Credit: ESA/Thales Alenia Space
    Missions

    How the ExoMars rover will search for Martian meteorites

    Prof Andrew Coates of University College London pictured with the ExoMars 2022 PanCam instrument. Credit: ESA
    Missions

    Interview How the ExoMars 2020 rover will search for signs of life on the Red Planet

    Artist's impression of NASA's Space Launch System leaving Earth orbit on its way to the Moon. Credit: NASA
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    How NASA’s Space Launch System will take crew to the Moon and Mars

    European Space Agency astrobiologist Dr Nicol Caplin
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    Radio Astronomy Podcast Interview with astrobiologist Nicol Caplin

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