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• Read ESA's Strategy 2040

  | Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:00:00 +0100
  

  ESA's Strategy 2040

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• New MetOp Second Generation weather satellite returns first data

  | Tue, 02 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0200
  

  Less than three weeks since the first MetOp Second Generation weather satellite, MetOp-SG-A1, was launched, this remarkable new satellite has already started transmitting data from two of its cutting-edge instruments, offering a tantalising glimpse of what’s to come.

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• Asteroid Bennu contains stardust that's older than the solar system

  | Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:00:00 +0000
  

  "Bennu is a time capsule of the material that was throughout the solar system."
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• Trump moves US Space Command to Alabama's 'Rocket City'

  | Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:35:08 +0000
  

  President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday (Sept. 2) that U.S. Space Command will be relocated from Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama.
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• Astronomers discover a 'forbidden' pulsar fleeing a supernova in a seemingly empty region of the Milky Way

  | Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:00:00 +0000
  

  A neutron star-powered pulsar is fleeing a supernova explosion in the outskirts of the Milky Way, a low-density region where such events are "forbidden."
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• Magic: The Gathering has gone to space, so we talked to an astrophysicist about the striking art in 'Edge of Eternities' (exclusive)

  | Tue, 02 Sep 2025 19:00:00 +0000
  

  The iconic tabletop card game has dabbled in science fiction before, but this new set is space opera-flavored and full of celestial phenomena.
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