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Second ExoMars mission moves to next launch opportunity in 2020

On 14 March 2016, the Roscosmos State Corporation and the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the jointly-developed ExoMars 2016 interplanetary mission, comprising the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and the Schiaparelli lander, on a Proton rocket from Baikonur, thus marking the first phase in the European-Russian ExoMars cooperation programme. To source

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Pensive comet

Space Science Image of the Week: Suggestive of a face immersed in deep thoughts, this view reveals the complex terrains around Anuket on Rosetta’s comet To source

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The colour-changing comet

Rosetta’s comet has been seen changing colour and brightness in front of the ESA orbiter’s eyes, as the Sun’s heat strips away the older surface to reveal fresher material. To source

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Monster stars

Hubble has identified dozens of very massive stars in a stellar cluster, including nine over 100 times more massive than the Sun To source

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Let the science begin

After weeks of engineering tests, the LISA Pathfinder science team is ready to start work, demonstrating key technologies to observe gravitational waves from space To source

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