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Diffractive solar sails, depicted in this conceptual illustration, could enable missions to hard-to-reach places, like orbits over the Sun?s poles. Credits: MacKenzi Martin

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NASA awards $2 million to advance rainbow-coloured solar sail project

As part of its Innovative Advanced Concepts programme, NASA has given a major award to a team working on solar sails that can move in any direction using ridges that diffract light like prisms do

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Starliner launch

Space

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft launches to ISS despite thruster issue

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space junk

Space

We don鈥檛 know whose rocket is about to hit the moon 鈥� that鈥檚 a problem

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James Webb Space Telescope

Space

James Webb Space Telescope has finished unfolding its massive mirror

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James Webb Space Telescope in orbit

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James Webb Space Telescope is carrying out its most critical manoeuvre

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Artist?s impression of the BepiColombo spacecraft at Mercury. The mission comprises ESA?s Mercury Planetary Orbiter (foreground) and JAXA?s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (background). The image of Mercury was taken by NASA?s Messenger spacecraft.

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The BepiColombo spacecraft is about to make its first Mercury fly-by

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Chinese rocket is hurtling back to Earth after space station launch

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Parker Solar Probe

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has gone faster than any spacecraft ever

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stone skipping

Physics

Stone skipping physics could help spacecraft land safely on water

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NASA has selected SpaceX to build a lander to take humans to the moon

SpaceX has been awarded a $2.9 billion contract to build the lunar lander that will take astronauts to the surface of the moon as part of NASA's Artemis programme

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Blue Origin鈥檚 latest launch brings it close to sending humans to space

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A Japanese spacecraft bombed an asteroid and it barely flinched

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Perseverance rover has sent back stunning video and audio from Mars

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NASA鈥檚 Perseverance rover is about to land on Mars and look for life

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