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Offbeat

Oreo's Space Dunk cookie to send lucky winner to the stars

One lucky fan is set to win a trip on Space Perspective’s Spaceship Neptune

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USA

US space company upbeat on next Moon mission despite lander's demise

When Turkey's first astronaut blasts off for the International Space Station (ISS) this week, he will embody his country's pride and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's outsized geopolitical ambitions. Photo:BSS
World+Biz

Turkey's first astronaut brandishes Erdogan's ambitions

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Tech

Space exploration in 2024: 5 things to know

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South Asia

Aditya L1, ISRO's first Sun mission set to be injected into final orbit tomorrow

NASA's humanoid robot Valkyrie opens a bag at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Photo: Reuters
Tech

Humanoid robots in space: The next frontier

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Science

The feline frontier: NASA sends cat video from deep space

The experiment saw the engine blast out a blue-and-orange flame 10-15 metres (30-50 feet) horizontally out of an open hangar door for around 10 seconds in the rural northern town of Taiki. Photo: Collected
Tech

Udder-ly New Space Chapter! To the moo-n: How cow dung is fuelling Japan's ambitions

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Tech

Aditya-L1 mission starts collecting solar wind data

A red robin tomato growing on a vine in the ISS (left) and Astronaut Frank Rubio tending to tomato plants there. Photo NASA
Offbeat

First tomato ever grown in space, lost 8 months ago, found by NASA astronauts

SpaceX's next-generation Starship spacecraft atop its powerful Super Heavy rocket is prepared for launch from the company's Boca Chica launchpad on an uncrewed test flight, near Brownsville, Texas, U.S. November 15, 2023. REUTERS File Photo
World+Biz

SpaceX carries South Korea's first spy satellite to orbit

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Europe

Russian cosmonauts finish over 7.5-hour spacewalk

Chinese astronauts Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin attend a see-off ceremony before the launch of the Long March-2F carrier rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-17 spacecraft for a crewed mission to China's Tiangong space station, at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center near Jiuquan, Gansu province, China October 26, 2023. China Daily via REUTERS
Science

China's youngest-ever crew of astronauts heads to space station