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The team of researchers have discovered a way to use low-cost iron catalysts to convert CO2 in the atmosphere into synthetic fuel for airplanes. The conversion reaction also produces other by-products which are important raw materials for the petrochemical industry and are presently also only obtained from fossil crude oil.

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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said it has released the first set of data from the country's second mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-2, for the general public.

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In an article in Cell, National Institutes of Health-funded researchers described how they used advanced genetic engineering techniques to transform a bacterial protein into a new research tool that may help monitor serotonin transmission with greater fidelity than current methods.

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China’s medium-lift Long March 8 Y-1 rocket took its first flight on Tuesday, December 22, under a long-term plan to develop reusable launch vehicles aimed at reducing mission costs and speeding up launch schedules for commercial clients.

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Winter Solstice this year will see a rare astronomical event - the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. Google is also celebrating the Winter Solstice and the Great Conjunction with its latest doodle. You might be able to catch a glimpse of the Great Conjunction, happening for the first time in 400 years today, without any special equipment.

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India successfully launched its latest communication satellite CMS-01 on board its Polar rocket from the Sriharikota spaceport, the second and last launch this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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China will share data and samples from the Moon obtained by its Chang'e 5 probe on the basis of international conventions though "unfortunate" US restrictions on cooperation might prevent it getting any, the deputy head of its space agency said.

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A Canadian astronaut will take part in a lunar mission for the first time in 2023, as part of the NASA-led Artemis project, the minister for innovation, science and industry announced Wednesday.

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Chang’e 5, the unmanned Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the Moon, returned safely to Earth in the first mission in four decades to collect lunar samples, the Xinhua news agency said.

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Chinese ground crews are standing by for the return of a lunar probe bringing back the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the moon in more than 45 years.

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Russia successfully test-launched its heavy-lift Angara A5 space rocket for the second time, the country's military and space officials said.

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UK engineers will soon begin work on a comet-chasing spacecraft that will track down and map one of the celestial objects in three dimensions.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook called on governments and businesses to implement stronger climate targets starting next year, during remarks at the United Nations' Climate Ambition Summit.

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A Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the Moon has begun its journey back to Earth, putting China on course to become the first country to successfully retrieve lunar samples since the 1970s.

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Hyundai has said that it will buy a controlling stake in Boston Dynamics from SoftBank in a deal that values the US-based robot maker at $1.1 billion. Boston Dynamics, that spun out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992, was bought by Google in 2013 and sold to SoftBank in 2017.

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SpaceX's Starship prototype exploded while attempting to land after an otherwise successful test launch from the company's rocket facility in Boca Chica, Texas, US, live video of the flight showed.

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Japan space agency officials on Sunday hailed the arrival of rare asteroid samples on Earth after they were collected by space probe Hayabusa-2 during an unprecedented mission.

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Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin will take the first woman to the moon's surface, the billionaire said on Friday as NASA nears a decision to pick its first privately built lunar landers capable of sending astronauts to the moon by 2024.

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Chinese scientists claim to have built a quantum computer that is able to perform certain computations nearly 100 trillion times faster than the world’s most advanced supercomputer, representing the first milestone in the country’s efforts to develop the technology.

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After six years in space, Japan's Hayabusa2 probe is heading home, but only to drop off its rare asteroid samples before starting a new mission.

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Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory could still have a future after its vast telescope dramatically collapsed this week, US officials said.

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Chinese space probe Chang'e 5 has lifted off from the surface of the Moon to return to Earth in an ambitious effort to bring back the first lunar samples in four decades.

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Singapore has given US startup Eat Just the greenlight to sell its lab-grown chicken meat, in what the firm says is the world's first regulatory approval for so-called clean meat that does not come from slaughtered animals.

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Chinese space probe Chang'e 5, sent to gather material from a previously unexplored part of the Moon, has completed its mission and is preparing to send back the world's first lunar samples in four decades.

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A team of scientists at Riga Technical University is working on technology that could one day stop asteroids from smashing into Earth. The high-precision timers being built by hand in the lab of Latvian startup Eventech are currently being used to track satellites.

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A massive radio telescope at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory – one of the world's largest – collapsed after sustaining severe damage since August, following 57 years of astronomical discoveries.

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An Artificial Intelligence program created by Google sister firm DeepMind was shown to be able to forecast the way how proteins contort into three dimensional structures in the results of a biannual competition that judges hailed as a game changer.

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Chinese spacecraft Chang’e 5 landed on the moon to bring back lunar rocks to Earth for the first time since the 1970s.

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