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The final space shuttle launch
Around 1 million people gathered in Cape Canaveral, Florida, to witness the launch of Atlantis on Nasa's final space shuttle voyage of the 30-year progam.

Florida: Back to Earth
Estelle Sarney visited Cape Canaveral as the Endeavour was being prepared for its last flight.

Future generations may be lost in space
If travelling to a new home might take thousands of years, would humans be able to successfully procreate along the way?

Latest star of 3D... the Sun
The Sun in all its illuminating glory has for the first time been photographed on all sides at once in an historic image.

Bloomin' marvellous
NASA has just released this amazing image of phytoplankton bloom around the Chatham Islands.

Alien life found - but no ET, sorry
Alien life has been among us all along, according to new biological findings announced by Nasa.

Boeing buys a ticket for the new space race
New 'space taxis' could be blasting off from Cape Canaveral in Florida as soon as in 2015, according to Boeing.

Nasa mission to hottest of hotspots
Nasa is planning to send a mission to one of the most inhospitable places in the universe – the sun itself.

Take a deep breath - why the world is running out of helium
A US law means supplies of the gas - a vital component in MRI scans - are vanishing fast.