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  1. Perseids meteor shower over Stone Henge

  2. Space Force units look at monitors showing the planet and satellites in orbit around it at their base in Colorado

    • BBC World Service

  4. Eleven men and two women standing by a rail, dressed in black or navy against a white wall. they are smiling at the camera.

  5. Image of Sun appearing gold coloured with explosions and loops of gas visible on its surface

  6. A rocket launches from Earth

  7. A red star in the process of forming against a field of stars.

  8. Image of the sun rising over a rural landscape

  9. Astronaut Naoko Yamazaki eats a snack on the International Space Station

  10. An egg on a yellow background

  11. Blue planet in the Foreground orbiting a small red star

  12. BBC correspondent Pallab Ghosh standing next to graphic of K2-18b planet

  13. Pallab Ghosh standing in studio next to a computer-generated image of blue planet

  14. The Athena Lunar Lander from US space exploration firm Intuitive Machines

  15. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams onboard the ISS smiling as they pose in the orbiting lab. Butch is looking out from within a white circular hatch, while Suni is lying just outside it.

  16. Hatch opens as replacements for Nasa's two stranded astronauts arrive at the ISS

  17. A photograph of Athena spacecraft on its side on the Moon's surface with Earth in the dark sky

  18. One of the last images of the Athena spacecraft as it neared the Moon's surface on Thursday

  20. A rocky grey oval shaped asteroid stands out in space against the stars in an artist's mock up

  21. A collage image of a rocket ship launch on the right, and a close up a astronaut on the left wearing a helmet

  22. Artist's impression of a super-Earth exoplanet.

  23. Astronaut Sunita Williams wearing Boeing spacesuit

  24. Split screen of rocket booster landing back at launch tower and rocket debris falling from sky