Obama sets out Mars mission
US president calls for NASA to send a manned mission to orbit the red planet
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Astronomers develop new planet-hunting tool
Novel technique could let smaller telescopes find extrasolar planets
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Ice mission blasts off
The European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 satellite will monitor changes in Earth's ice thicknesses
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Physics at the end of the Earth
Margaret Harris goes on the ultimate physics-adventure
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UK launches space agency
Science minister Paul Drayson says that the space industry could be worth £40bn and create 100,000 jobs in 20 years' time
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The eerie silence
Paul Davies calls for the search for extraterrestrials to be relaunched
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Fermi pins down a colossal accelerator
Blazar light is created light-years away from supermassive black hole
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A new view of our volatile star
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory will improve our understanding of the changing Sun
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Warm white dwarfs could reveal ‘inelastic’ dark matter
Dark matter would keep the stars from getting too cold, calculations show
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Exoplanet hunting brought down to Earth
Infrared correction technique reveals methane in exoplanet's atmosphere
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