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The birth of Virgin Galactic, by Richard Branson
Destination Space
19/11/2009

The birth of Virgin Galactic, by Richard Branson.

Asteroid alert
Asteroid alert!
27/08/2009

They killed the dinosaurs. They wrecked the Moon. And they've appeared in some truly awful movies. But now the United Nations has declared war on asteroids. It's about time, says Paul Parsons

Solar storm
27/08/2009

If just one solar storm hit Earth it would wreck life as we know it. Our electricity supply and communications network would be destroyed, returning civilisation to the 18th century. Stuart Clark asks is there any way we can protect ourselves?

Have we all been here before?
31/07/2008

The Universe appeared from a cataclysmic explosion 13.7 billion years ago in which space, time and matter were all created. So is there any truth in the theory that universes and civilisations existed before our own? Robert Matthews investigates

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