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A comet, an eclipse, a supernova, an alignment of planets - was the Star of Bethlehem, said to have led the wise men to the Baby Jesus, a real astronomical event?
The US space agency is planning to launch a satellite that can map where all the carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere.
The world's third-largest mining firm, Rio Tinto, is cutting 14,000 jobs as part of plans to reduce its debt by $10bn.
Astronomers have captured light echoes of the historic supernova of 1572, which overturned Aristotle's theory of the universe.
A city in north-eastern Spain installs solar panels at its main cemetery in a move to generate power for homes.
The European Space Agency must balance ambition against limited funds as it plans its programme for the years ahead.
Two studies show the first direct images of planets outside our Solar System, including a three-planet system.
Experimental evidence confirms that a plan to protect spaceships from radiation using magnetic fields would work.
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The European Space Agency says its satellite-navigation demonstration satellite is performing well after an anomaly took it offline for two weeks.
Science reporter Paul Rincon details the goings on at the International Astronautical Congress which is taking place this year in Glasgow.
The Swift space telescope witnesses the catastrophic explosion of a massive star some 12.8 billion light-years from Earth.
Eleven industrial groups will compete for the contracts to build Europe's much-delayed satellite-navigation system, Galileo.
Scientists find what they say is a missing link between the behaviour of the smallest and biggest black holes
Nasa is to see if the space shuttle can fly beyond its 2010 planned retirement, reports say, despite safety fears.
A powerful Nasa space telescope has unveiled an image of the sky viewed through "gamma-ray glasses".
Golden girl Rebecca Adlington plans a shoe spree as Jose Mourinho gets up to his old tricks
The procurement process is opened to construct Europe's much-delayed Galileo satellite-navigation system.
Sir Patrick Moore nominates an amateur astronomer from Gloucester to have an asteroid named after him.
Astronomers have identified a trio of so-called "super-Earths" - rocky planets between two and 10 times the mass of Earth.
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