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International Space Station’s (from left) Zvezda service module, Zarya module, and Unity module

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Tourists watch the northern lights over Denmark in February 2023. Dozens of states could catch the phenomenon Thursday night

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Chinese astronaut Wu Fei holds a rack of chicken wings prepared in the new space oven

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Long March-2F carrier rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft

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The full moon on 5 November, 2025, coincides with Guy Fawkes Night in the UK

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New image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

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View of the Palomar Observatory at night

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The H3 (7th) rocket by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), carrying a new HTV-X cargo transfer spacecraft, is launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Minamitane, Tanegashima Island, southern Japan, on Sunday, 26 October 2025. (Kotaro Ueda/Kyodo News via AP)

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Elon Musk

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SpaceX founder Elon Musk has been firing off insults at the Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy, saying he is undermining the U.S. space program

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Elon Musk took new shots at Sean Duffy Tuesday with the billionaire accusing Trump’s Transport Secretary of ‘trying to kill NASA’ and attacking him with childish comments online

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Strange metal debris found in Australian Outback

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SpaceX founder Elon Musk has been firing off insults at the Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy, saying he is undermining the U.S. space program

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Elon Musk took new shots at Sean Duffy Tuesday with the billionaire accusing Trump’s Transport Secretary of ‘trying to kill NASA’ and attacking him with childish comments online

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Strange metal debris found in Australian Outback

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The double star Albireo in Cygnus captured on 26 December 2019. The 2.5-minute exposures recorded Starlink satellites moving across the field

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A United Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplane takes off from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) as seen from El Segundo, California, on 11 September, 2023

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Data from the James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed four galaxies dating to when the universe was around 300–500 million years old (PA)

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Two comets, Comet Lemmon and SWAN are currently close to earth and can be seen without equipment

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Spectators on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, UK, watch the northern lights

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Spectators on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, UK, watch the northern lights

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The centaur object (2060) Chiron, which orbits the sun between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus, and its ring system

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Former NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told The Independent that Elon Musk has ‘contradicted himself’ when saying lunar missions are a ‘distraction’ on the way to Mars

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SpaceX's mega rocket Starship makes a test flight from Starbase, Texas, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025

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SpaceX will attempt to launch Starship Flight 11 from its Starbase facility in Texas on 13 October, 2025

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with Starlink satellites is seen above Lawndale, California after being launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on 18 June, 2024

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Stars typically contain a small percentage of heavier elements like carbon and iron

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The Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) on board ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) captured these three dust devils tracking across the martian surface on 8 November 2021

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Blue Origin's New Shepard craft will lift off on 8 October, 2025, with a six person crew

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Asteroid 2025 TF passed Earth above Antarctica

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A full moon supermoon appears over the Shard in London

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Supermoon over The Temple of Poseidon at Sounion on the Athenian coast of Greece

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The 2025 Harvest Moon, which is also a supermoon, will take place on 6 October

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Has there ever been life on Mars?

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New image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

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Cassini image looking across the south pole of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus in 2010

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 captured using Webb telescope's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument)

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Pillars of Creation in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared-light view

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This 1968 NASA file image shows a view of the far side of lunar surface as taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft

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Artist’s impression of the rocky, habitable-zone exoplanet Kepler-168b.

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The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87

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The International Space Station (ISS)

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The trio lifted off on a SpaceX rocket shortly after dawn on Wednesday, destined for a sun-orbiting vantage point 1.6 million kilometres (one million miles) from Earth

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SpaceX performed a static fire test of its Starship rocket at the company's Starbase facility in Texas on 22 September, 2025

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A concept of SpaceX's Starship Human Landing System (HLS)

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A long exposure image of a full moon known as a 'Blood Moon' on 7 September, 2025

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A close-up picture of the moon taken from Apollo 16 on 10 July 1972

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Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of the sun on 9 September 2025

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Blue-green algae at Battery Harbour on Lough Neagh near Cookstown in Co Tyrone (PA)

Blue-green algae at Battery Harbour on Lough Neagh near Cookstown in Co Tyrone (PA)

Solar flare shooting through the Sun’s atmosphere

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Illustration of space-based solar panels.

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Cutaway view of Mars in artist’s concept reveals debris from ancient impacts scattered through planet’s mantle

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New image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

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Famous "Wow!" signal

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Ohio State researchers say nuclear propulsion offers a solution to long-distance space travel

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An artist's impression of a black hole using data from Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope

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The Nasa logo is displayed at the Earth Information Center exhibit

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An illustration showing what the TRAPPIST-1 system might look like from a vantage point near planet TRAPPIST-1f

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The double star, V Sagittae

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This image provided by the European Southern Observatory shows a powerful explosion, orange dot at the center of the image, that repeated several times over the course of a day, The image, taken with ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), allowed astronomers to determine that the explosion didn't take place in the Milky Way but in another galaxy

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A total lunar eclipse "blood moon" visible over Liverpool

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The upper stage of SpaceX's Starship rocket splashing down in the Indian Ocean after lifting off from Starbase, Texas, on 26 August, 2025, for its tenth test flight

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The dark interstellar cloud Barnard 68 resembles a 'hole in the heavens'

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The Northern Lights seen at St Mary’s lighthouse in Whitley Bay (Owen Humphreys/PA)

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A rocket is placed outside the Esrange Space Center, a base deep in the Swedish forest and a part of Europe's hope to compete in the space race in Kiruna, Sweden

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The UK Met Office forecasts northern lights as far south as East Anglia and the Midlands on Monday, 1 September, through to Wednesday, 3 September, 2025

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The Butterfly Nebula was first discovered in the 1970s, but it's core had been obscured by dust

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Elon Musk’s mega rocket Starship, which the tech billionaire hopes will one day carry humans to Mars, has completed its first successful test flight, following a year of – at times explosive – mishaps

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The UK Met Office forecasts northern lights as far south as East Anglia and the Midlands on Monday, 1 September, through to Wednesday, 3 September, 2025

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The Butterfly Nebula was first discovered in the 1970s, but it's core had been obscured by dust

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Elon Musk’s mega rocket Starship, which the tech billionaire hopes will one day carry humans to Mars, has completed its first successful test flight, following a year of – at times explosive – mishaps

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A newborn planet eating its way through its dusty cradle as it orbits its host star

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Starship sits on the launchpad of SpaceX's Starbase facility in southern Texas on Monday, 25 August, 2025

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SpaceX is aiming to attempt the 10th flight test of its Starship rocket on Monday, 25 August

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Nasa's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of a witch hat or helmet-shaped rock 'Horneflya'

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While you can’t actually see a black moon as it happens, a solar eclipse has a similar effect. The moon passes between the sun and the Earth

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Exploding Star

Mysteries of Uranus may be explained by extreme space weather – study (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

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