Space exploration
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Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin: the new space race?
Speed Read Branson has declared space open for business. Is that still a pie in the sky?
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‘We have no choice but to confront the very worst aspects of English football’
Instant Opinion Your digest of analysis and commentary from the British and international press
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Could microbes communicate with alien species?
feature Experts argue that we should be searching for microbial life rather than human-like aliens
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Russia and China joining forces to build first Moon base
Speed Read Lunar pact represents ‘all kinds of security threats’ to UK and US, expert warns
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China ‘trying to take control of the Moon’
feature And other stories from the stranger side of life
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Jeff Bezos wants to take crews to Moon by 2024
Speed Read Amazon CEO has often spoken of desire to colonise outer space
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Nasa issues warning about herpes in space
Speed Read Dormant viruses have been awoken in more than half of the astronauts who have embarked on space missions
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Nasa set to declare Mars rover ‘dead’
Speed Read Opportunity rover has not been heard from in eight months following massive dust storm
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Nasa reveals first close-up pictures of Ultima Thule
Speed Read Distant space rock looks like a ‘large red snowman’
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Nasa InSight probe lands safely on Mars
Speed Read New probe set to study the deep interior of the Red Planet
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Tim Peake and intelligent design: why do astronauts have spiritual experiences in space?
In Depth The British astronaut is not the first to question whether the universe was created by a higher power
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Africa’s space race intensifies
Speed Read Moon landings ‘still a long way off’ but Nigeria and South Africa leading the way in space technology
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Relaunching Nasa’s moon missions
In Depth In Depth: Donald Trump’s new directive aims to put humans back on the Moon for the first time since 1972
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Africa joins space race: Should Ghana be over the moon?
In Depth GhanaSat-1 puts the tiny west African nation in competition with Nasa and the Chinese
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