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An urban explorer has died after trying to walk to the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan from which Russia launches its rockets into space.The 25-year-old Frenchman died from dehydration on Monday, according to Russia's RIA news service…

The British-backed Euclid space telescope has beamed back its first incredible images of distant galaxies on its mission to uncover the mysteries of the dark universe.The European space telescope, named after the ancient Greek…

The daughter a French explorer on board the missing Titan submersible said she was still holding out hope they would be rescued - shortly before news broke that debris from the vessel was found on the ocean floor this morning. The…

MEMOIR FROM UTMOST EAST TO UTMOST WEST by John Blashford-Snell (Bradt £14.99, 541pp) The trick when having a meeting with the Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, apparently, was to bow down so low as you reversed out of the Royal…