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Space

China plans world鈥檚 biggest spaceplane to carry 20 tourists

A state-backed agency is testing its first vehicle to send tourists to the edge of space and back - and hopes to fly up to 20 people at a time

Red Planet with rocket homing in

Space

Elon Musk’s spectacular plan to colonise Mars lacks substance

Rosetta cartoon

Space

Farewell to Rosetta, the comet mission that captivated the world

Space

China launches a space station and wants an even bigger one

A comparison of rockets

Space

Blue Origin unveils big new rocket that will put humans in orbit

Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo in flight

Space

Virgin Galactic returns to the skies two years after fatal crash

illustration of a planet in silhouette with a star behind

Space

Proxima b: 7 big questions about the new planet next door

Proxima B

Humans

Getting to Proxima b might become an existential requirement

a yellow sail, a bit like a starfish

Physics

Interstellar probes will be eroded on the way to Alpha Centauri

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Space

NASA gets in touch with spacecraft two years after it vanished

The twin STEREO spacecraft went missing while testing a system that would allow it to fly behind the sun

Physics

China launches world’s first quantum communications satellite

Space

Astronauts prepare for Mars mission at the bottom of the sea

Humans

Six science fiction novels you should be reading

Space

No more space race rhetoric: it’s not just about the US any more