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Down the drain - and into a 3D printer

Space

Astronauts could 3D print tools from their own processed faeces

Astronauts on long missions won't be able to bring all their tools with them. A new way of turning faeces into 3D-printable plastic may solve that problem

News

Chinese space station Tiangong-1 has finally fallen from the sky

Space

Chinese space station Tiangong-1 has finally fallen from the sky

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probe 1

Space

Mission Icarus: Inside the daring plan to touch the sun

Features

Start-up accused of launching mini satellites without permission

Space

Start-up accused of launching mini satellites without permission

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Jupiter

Space

Stunning shot of Jupiter's swirling storms taken by Juno camera

Regulars

dummy astronaut

Space

Was SpaceX launch about progress in space, or just a giant ad?

News

Tiangong-1 space station

Space

China's reckless attitude to space debris needs to change

Comment

Tesla car with Earth as backdrop

Space

Is Elon Musk's playboy space odyssey really the future we want?

Analysis

solar panels

Space

Delicate solar panels of Martian lander are tested before launch

Regulars

Tesla Roadster inside Falcon Heavy

Space

SpaceX set to launch massive Falcon Heavy rocket for first time

The rocket is one of the most powerful ever built and will launch SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s personal Tesla Roadster into an orbit around the sun

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Space

Seeing SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket take off for the first time

News

Space

Google-sponsored race to the moon has ended without a winner

News

Space

Upstart Electron rocket has made it to orbit for the first time

News

Space

We must accept more risks if we want space travel to take off

Insight