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A newly spotted asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032

The potential impact would occur on December 22, 2032.

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Kubilius: Space is an EU top priority, but budget is still limited

In ten years, the global space economy could triple in size. Europe wants to remain at the forefront of this sector, but risks being left behind if words are not matched by action, said EU Commissioner for Space and Defence Andrius Kubilius.

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SpaceX’s Starship Test Flight Ends in Destruction After Successful Booster Catch

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on a test flight Thursday, but the spacecraft was destroyed after losing engine power.

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SpaceX's Starship rocket explodes during seventh test launch

Elon Musk's company said Starship broke apart, what it called a "rapid unscheduled disassembly".

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches massive new rocket on test flight

Named after the first American to orbit Earth, the New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida.

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SpaceX launches two lunar landers headed toward the Moon

SpaceX launched a pair of lunar landers on Wednesday for private US and Japanese companies.

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Blue Origin calls off maiden launch of new rocket over vehicle issue

Blue Origin is a space tech company founded nearly 25 years ago by Amazon's Jeff Bezos. The New Glenn launch could cement the company as a SpaceX rival.

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Kenya investigates piece of space debris that crash landed in village

Kenya's Space Agency (KSA) said the object was a massive metallic ring measuring approximately 2.5 metres wide and weighing 500 kilograms.

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Who was Europe's top investor in space in 2023?

Luxembourg remains Europe's top investor in space in a year when defence spending on space exceeded civil space budgets for the first time since the 1990s.

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EU signs satellite constellation contracts to up secure connectivity

The multi-orbital satellite constellation, dubbed IRIS², is scheduled to come fully online in 2030.

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SpaceX launches sixth test flight of Starship rocket

President-elect Donald Trump flew in for the launch in the latest sign of his deepening bond with Elon Musk, SpaceX's founder and CEO.

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Donald Trump may attend Elon Musk's SpaceX 'Starship' launch

US president-elect Donald Trump appears to be planning to attend the latest test launch of Elon Musk's SpaceX 'Starship'.

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SpaceX crew returns to Earth after nearly 8 months at space station

The crew members completed more than 3,700 orbits around Earth.

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Airbus to cut up to 2,500 jobs in defence and space unit

The European firm is suffering from disrupted supply chains, rapid changes in warfare, and increasing budget constraints.

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Trash to treasure: NASA wants innovative space recycling projects

NASA is challenging the public to come up with ways to recycle the material waste created in deep space.

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A new star could explode any day now. Here's what you need to know

Astronomers are waiting for T Coronae Borealis, a nova 3,000 light-years away, to explode for the first time in almost 80 years.

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Is EU's first space commissioner launched on low-orbit mission?

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's second term will see the first-ever commissioner for defence and space. But his mission and support do not match the recognition seen at the policy level, analysts and industry representatives argue.

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State-of-the-art reproduction of Moon's surface in Europe

Europe is seeking to place itself at the forefront of missions to the Moon with a facility covering almost 1,000 square metres that reproduces the lunar surface to train astronauts for future missions.

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Earth set to gain a 'mini-moon' as an asteroid enters our orbit

Researchers say that an asteroid will begin orbiting Earth this weekend and will be in orbit around the planet until November.

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Soyuz capsule returns from ISS with record-breaking cosmonauts

Onboard the capsule were cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub who broke the record for the longest continuous stay at the space station.