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On Christmas Eve in 2023, a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft captured what looks like a barcode etched into the rusty ...

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Exploring one of science's most exciting frontiers, the book "Life in Space" bridges astrophysics and biology to uncover the ...

A new space telescope with Irish scientific involvement goes into operation this week on a mission to study how stars behave ...

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