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Nasa’s Kepler Mission has discovered an Earth size planet orbiting in the habitable zone around its host star.


A 1300 feet (400 meters) wide asteroid came within 202,000 miles (325,000 km) of Earth.



The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has announced the discovery of 50 planets orbiting other stars.



Could this image be proof of flowing water on the surface of Mars?


The 30 year space shuttle programme finally came to an end as Atlantis landed at the Kennedy Space Center on July 21st 2011.


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The Atlas 5 rocket launches Juno on the 5th of August 2011 on its mission to study Jupiter.

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