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Astronauts tight-lipped on who was ill in long space station mission

An artist's impression of the lunar pit in the Sea of Tranquillity on the Moon. Picture: University of Trento/PA Wire

The 'milestone' discovery on the Moon that could provide a home for humans

Children play on a Loch Ness monster sculpture at Nessieland in Drumnadrochit in the Highlandsn(Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images)

Readers' letters: Nasa won't find Nessie because Nessie doesn't exist

People are being encouraged to join the quest to find Nessie this spring

Explainer The Loch Ness Centre calls on NASA in new search for Nessie

Odysseus passes over the near side of the Moon following lunar orbit during the IM-1 mission. Picture: Intuitive Machines/AFP via Getty Images

Odysseus becomes first private spacecraft to land on the Moon

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Former NASA engineer reveals quickest way to defrost windscreens

Driving in the Puna desert, a high-altitude plateau in the Catamarca Province of north-west Argentina. Pic: Sarah Marshall/PA.

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The International Space Station photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking. Picture: NASA/Roscosmos

All-UK space mission planned after UK Space Agency signs agreement

A H-IIA rocket carrying a small lunar surface probe and other objects lifts off from the Tanegashima Space Centre on Tanegashima island, Kagoshima prefecture on September 7, 2023. Japan launched on September 7 a rocket carrying what it hopes will be its first successful Moon landing. Picture: JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images

Could the new space race bring opposing nations together?

Canadian actor Ryan Gosling arrives for the world premiere of Barbie. (Photo by MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Images)

5 of the best Ryan Gosling movies you HAVE to watch before seeing Barbie

Nasa rover discovers evidence of life in the Jezero crater on Mars

Paul Bate (right), chief executive of the UK Space Agency, joins Zaria Serfontein, co-founder of Frontier Space Technologies, at the UK Space Agency offices in Westminster. Picture: Matt Crossick

Space satellites launched from Scotland 'essential' in climate fight

Brewgooder is using the grain fonio to create its Session IPA

How a Scottish brewery is introducing a sustainable grain from Africa

Nasa holds first public meeting about UFO sightings

The Flower Moon of May 2020 (which was also a ‘supermoon’) rising above the village of Brixworth (Photo: Clive Mason/Getty Images)

When is the Flower Moon in May 2023?

SpaceX's Starship launches from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, April 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Elon Musk's SpaceX’s Starship rocket explodes minutes after blast-off

A defunct satellite weighing 660 pounds is expected to crash back to Earth in the early hours of Thursday. Picture by NASA

660-pound old satellite to crash back to Earth

The Earth rises above the horizon of the moon, as seen by the crew of the Apollo 8 mission in December 1968 (Picture: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Nasa's return to moon gives some much-needed new hope about humanity's future

Black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun pictured

This is the spacesuit the first astronaut back on the Moon will wear

Nasa reveal new spacesuit the first astronaut back on Moon will wear

Vertical farming, originally developed by Nasa scientists as a potential way to grow food for astronauts in space, involves rearing crops indoors in upright stacked layers, with the environment strictly controlled to optimise plant growth

Salad days: How farming tech invented by Nasa could solve food problems

NASA discover new asteroid similar in size to Rome’s Colosseum

Graphic issued by Nasa of the Orbital diagram from CNEO's close approach viewer showing BU's trajectory - in red - during its close approach with Earth. Then asteroid will pass about 10 times closer to Earth than the orbit of geosynchronous satellites, shown in green line. An asteroid the size of a small truck will pass by Earth tonight, making one of the closest approaches to the planet ever recorded.

Asteroid to pass Earth in one of closest approaches ever recorded

A Nasa image of the Orbital diagram from CNEO's close approach viewer showing BU's trajectory - in red - during its close approach with Earth. Picture: NASA/JPL-Caltech/PA Wire

Asteroid to pass Earth in one of closest approaches ever recorded

Near miss: NASA says Earth set for ‘close encounter’ with asteroid

Retailing at around £40, the Peace Lily is a little pricey but may prove a worthy investment for many during the cost of living crisis.

This £40 plant will rid your home of mould and dust, according to NASA

For the first time in 50,000 years, a green comet is expected to pass by Earth’s outer space that might just be bright enough to be seen by the naked eye.

Rare green comet to pass by Earth’s outer space

An image of newly discovered TOI 700 e Earth-sized planet

Nasa finds two new Earth-sized planets in ‘habitable zone’

Pufferfish's display systems deliver 'highly interactive engagement and multi-sensory experiences' for a range of uses and settings, including corporate communications, museums, science centres, planetariums, art exhibitions and other visitor attractions, as well as scientific and educational institutions.

Edinburgh firm behind multi-sensory display systems to inject ‘wow’ factor

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine caused a global energy crisis as oil and gas prices soared (Picture: Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

Real energy security lies at the end of the road to net-zero carbon emissions

Nasa's Artemis I Space Launch System rocket, with the Orion capsule attached, launches on November 16 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The sky’s the limit for Graduate Apprenticeships - Prof Gillian Murray

It is 50 years to the day since US astronaut Gene Cernan became the last person to set foot on the moon (Picture: AFP via Getty)

Fifty years after the last astronaut landed on the moon, we must go back

Dr Hina Khan joins Space Scotland as its first-ever executive director, and says she is looking forward to bringing a fresh perspective to the industry. Picture: Mark F Gibson/Gibson Digital.

Space Scotland targets accelerated ascent with duo of senior appointments

Orion sends image of Moon and the Earth to celebrate halfway point

Spectators watch as the Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket lifts off from launch pad

Man could be living on the Moon by end of decade – Nasa official

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - NOVEMBER 16: NASA’s Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, with the Orion capsule attached, launches at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on November 16, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Artemis I mission will send the uncrewed spacecraft around the moon to test the vehicle's propulsion, navigation and power systems as a precursor to later crewed mission to the lunar surface. (Photo by Red Huber/Getty Images)

Artemis 1: Nasa’s moon rocket lifts off

Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, with the Orion capsule attached, launches at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on November 16

NASA successfully launch unmanned Aretmis One rocket

The Hubble telescope sits in low-earth orbit (image: Getty Images)

NASA’s Hubble Telescope captures supernova happening in early universe

A super blood wolf moon next to one of The Kelpies near Falkirk during a lunar eclipse.

Beaver Blood Moon: Date of November full moon, lunar eclipse times
November’s ‘Beaver Blood Moon’ marks the final time in three years that we will observe a full lunar eclipse or ‘blood moon’ in the sky - here’s when it will ar...

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The age of the data pioneers - Brian Hills

Dorset was battered by thunderstorms and a band of heavy rain overnight on the weekend.

Rare footage shows thunderbolt hit sea off the English coast

An artist's impression of Nasa's Dart ( double asteroid redirection test) craft. Picture: Nasa

How science fiction became science fact when Nasa nudged an asteroid off track

Robots can be better designed if they 'evolve' (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Robots are being redesigned by artificial evolution – Professor Emma Hart

Things are looking up for stargazers this week as the Draconid meteor shower is set to peak

When does Draconid meteor shower peak and how to watch

Europa or "Jupiter II" is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, with this moon orbiting at about 417,000 miles from the gas giant.

Jupiter Moon Could Support Life: NASA spacecraft will probe the moon’s crust

Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by the DART spacecraft 11 seconds before impact (Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL)

NASA DART mission: why was a spacecraft flown into an asteroid

Undated handout artist impression issued by Nasa of its Double Asteroid Redirection Test or Dart. Nasa has successfully crashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid as part of a planetary protection test mission. While this asteroid - named Dimorphos - posed no threat to Earth, the aim of the mission was to demonstrate that dangerous incoming rocks can be deflected by deliberately smashing into them. Issue date: Tuesday September 27, 2022.

Nasa tests defence technology by crashing spacecraft into asteroid

NASA to crash aircraft into asteroid in Earth defence test

Jupiter will reach opposition this week making its closest approach to Earth in the last 59 years

How to see Jupiter’s closest approach to earth in 59 years

NASA's Artemis I rocket sits on launch pad 39B after the launch was scrubbed at Kennedy Space Center. Picture: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Nasa rocket launch now weeks away after dangerous fuel leak

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B

Fuel leak halts Nasa’s second attempt to launch moon rocket

People set up remote cameras near the Artemis I rocket on the launch pad behind them at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Picture: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

British scientists use AI to find best place to walk on Moon

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on August 28, 2022

Artemis 1 launched called off after engine problem

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

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