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NASA's Modular Robotic Vehicle autonomous car

Nasa tests battery-operated robotic car that can drive sideways and drift around corners

Nasa debuts Modular Robotic Vehicle prototype to test future space rovers and autonomous driving

Meteorites from moon-forming planet collision 'could provide Holy Grail of primordial Earth'

Moon's age dated to 4.47 billion years with stony meteorites from giant impact event.

SpaceX rocket explodes on impact after landing attempt

An unmanned SpaceX rocket blasted off from Florida flipped around and made a hard landing on a platform in the ocean.

Earth 'swallowed Mercury-like planet' to form layers and get magnetic field

Scientists suggest huge Mercury-like body smashed into Earth early in its history.

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Interacting dark matter potentially observed for first time ever in colliding galaxies

Discovery of dark matter interacting with itself would open up new realm of physics.

Asteroid 'size of the Albert Hall' could hit earth in 2017 - astronomer

Asteroid 2012 TC4 is up to 40 metres long and could cause huge damage if it hits the earth

Rosetta and Philae find no magnetic field for Comet 67P as experts await wake up

Lack of magnetic field on 67P debunks theory of comet formation and evolution.

SpaceX Falcon 9 launch rescheduled but chance of lift-off only 50%

SpaceX postponed launch of rocket carrying Dragon spacecraft following poor weather conditions.

Dark matter map created with world's most powerful digital camera

Dark Energy Survey release first map of dark matter showing clumpy nature.

ESA astronaut André Kuipers during his six-month PromISSe mission to the International Space Station with Nightpod

Nasa to pay £12,000 for volunteers who will stay in lab bed for 70 days

Experiment aimed at studying effects of microgravity on human physiology.

Ceres: Strange bright spots will be identified during close approach by Dawn next week

From a close approach distance of 13,500 km to the planet, Dawn will be able to pick out the details.

Mars: Salty liquid water 'discovered' on Red Planet raises questions of alien life

Nasa scientists find evidence that brine water exists on surface of Red Planet.

SpaceX Dragon launch: Watch take-off of Falcon 9 Nasa cargo mission to ISS live online

Sixth SpaceX cargo mission to International Space Station at 60% 'go' ahead of launch.

International Day of Human Space Flight: 10 achievements since Yuri Gagarin made first Earth orbit

United Nations International Day of Human Space Flight, 12 April, celebrates the first human in space

Space mystery traced to university kitchen ovens

The perytons accompanying fast radio bursts were a result of energy discharge from ovens.

Future of human space flight: 'Real money is being spent on America's Space Launch System'

The International Day of Human Space Flight on 12 April celebrates the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin.

Life could exist on dark worlds without stars, astrophysicist Sean Raymond says

Alien life could thrive on planets without suns in hydrothermal vents below icy layer

UAE Space Agency and France's CNES announce strategic partnership

United Arab Emirates and France sign memorandum for partnership in space.

Abundant organic molecules in young star shows conditions of life are universal

These molecules are the building blocks of amino acids and proteins crucial to life as we know.

University of Copenhagen identifies icy glaciers beneath Mars surface

University of Copenhagen believes massive glaciers are beneath Red Planet's dusty exterior

New Horizons: Pluto lander would be 'spectacular' next mission

New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern discusses mission ahead of flyby in July.

Gravitational lensing delivers stunning cosmic ring image of distant galaxy

The perfect alignment of galaxies relative to Earth resulted in the bending of light to form the image.

Seasons on the sun explain Cold War-era puzzle of powerful solar flare peaks

Sun undergoes seasonal variability over two years, Nasa scientists discover.

SpiderFab: Spider robots building structures in space

Nasa funding spider robots to lower the costs of bringing huge structures to space

Tethers Unlimited is developing SpiderFab, an in-space manufacturing system to create large objects in orbit.

Extraterrestrial intelligent life likely to be big rather than small says study

A mathematical model based on probabilities puts alien intelligent life at over 300 kg

Lunar eclipse 2015: Why this one is rare and where you can see it

This eclipse forms part of a rare series which will next be seen only in 2032.

Planets as old as the universe could point to extremely advanced alien civilisations

Earth receiving mysterious radio signals from outer space; alien life source a possibility, believe astronomers

Could it be that alien life forms are trying to contact Earth?

Super Typhoon Maysak: Huge storm pictured from space as Unicef warns Philippines to prepare

Unicef says staff are on standby to respond to super typhoon Maysak heading towards Philippines.

Nasa tests saucer-shaped vehicle for future travel to Mars

Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory conducted spin tests on the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD).

Scott Kelly says space station arrival 'like coming to my old home'

Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly was all smiles as he spoke to earth from the International Space Station.

Mercury has been 'painted black' by comet dust over billions of years

Mercury's dark surface explained by carbon dusting that has covered the planet's surface.

International Space Station robot Kirobo returns to earth and wins Guinness World records

Kirobo, a companion robot, was awarded two Guinness World Records

Colliding galaxy clusters suggest there is no dark matter mirror universe

Dark matter does not interact with itself, study of colliding galaxy clusters shows.

Year in Space: Watch ISS astronauts Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko launch live online

Everything you need to know about the astronauts spending a whole year in space.

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