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Tim Peake floating in the cupola on the ISS.

Tim Peake’s Soyuz capsule returns to Science Museum, London

An artist's impression of the Gaia spacecraft mapping the Milky Way
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ESA’s Gaia: mapping the Milky Way

The launch of Apollo 9 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in 1969.
Credit: NASA

Interview Former NASA scientist David Baker

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Bepi Colombo: Mission to Mercury

The ARIEL satellite will look for traces of chemicals such as water vapour, carbon dioxide and methane in exoplanet atmospheres. Image Credit: ESA/STFC RAL Space/UCL/Europlanet-Science Office

ARIEL: ESA’s new exoplanet-hunting mission

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The mission to deflect an asteroid

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Giotto: 30 years on

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Film and TV reviews

An Hour On The Moon

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ESA’s Gaia celebrates its first year observing

A history of ESA mission patches

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ESA’s Venus Express begins its descent

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ESA test drive Mars rover in the Atacama Desert

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Sun sets over ESA’s Antarctic Concordia lab

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Envisat’s mission over after 10 years spent in orbit