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Why does the US want to put nuclear reactors on the moon?
Today's Big Question The plans come as NASA is facing significant budget cuts
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'America is becoming a nation of homebodies'
Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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Answers to how life on Earth began could be stuck on Mars
Under the Radar Donald Trump plans to scrap Nasa's Mars Sample Return mission – stranding test tubes on the Red Planet and ceding potentially valuable information to China
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Trump officials who hold more than one job
IN THE SPOTLIGHT Wearing multiple hats has become the norm inside a White House known for a revolving door of functionaries and officials
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Why is Nasa facing a crisis?
Today's Big Question Trump administration proposes 25% cut to national space agency's budget in 'extinction-level event'
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'Moving the headquarters isn't about abandoning Washington'
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Life after space: how will Nasa's stranded astronauts cope?
In the Spotlight Sunita 'Suni' Williams and Barry 'Butch' Wilmore are headed back to Earth after nine months on the ISS – but their greatest challenge may still lie ahead
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Killer space rocks
Feature The threat to Earth from a newly discovered asteroid has faded. Others could be headed our way.
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Spherex: Nasa's cutting-edge telescope searching for the origins of life
The Explainer New mission to unlock the secrets of the universe with most comprehensive map of the cosmos yet
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How worried should we be about asteroids?
Today's Big Question Odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth have fluctuated wildly this week
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'Orange juice also is facing a grander existential problem'
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Earth's mini-moon was the moon all along
Under the radar More lunar rocks are likely floating in space
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'Super Earth': the exoplanet in the 'habitable zone' for alien life
The Explainer HD 20794 D is located in the 'habitable zone' of a star similar to our Sun
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The moon has been listed as a threatened historic site
Under the radar Human influence has extended to space
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