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The Met Office is to offer daily predictions about the weather in space, providing early warnings of solar storms that can disrupt satellites, radio communications and power grids

Japan’s first robot astronaut, Kirobo, in his first ever space chat with astronaut Koichi Wakata says he wants a toy rocket for Christmas and zero-gravity is “no problem at all”.

A £2bn satellite that was 20 years in the making is launched into space as part of an EU mission to map a billion stars.

Scientists say it is unlikely that Comet Ison has survived its journey around the sun, with video from Nasa showing the comet appearing to disappear – though questions still remain.

Fifteen years ago the first module of the international space station was launched on board a Russian rocket. Channel 4 News explores how the ISS has opened the mysteries of space up to the world.

Nasa’s Voyager has left the solar system, destination unknown, carrying a golden record with a plea from Jimmy Carter and a Chuck Berry tune. The Royal Astronomical Society’s Dr Keith Smith explains.

An astronaut recounts the terrifying moment his helmet began filling up with water during a spacewalk and issues a stark warning: “we are explorers, not colonisers.”

They come in peace – believe it or not. British engineers test a new space probe known as the penetrator, by firing it straight into a massive block of ice. The next stop is one of Jupiter’s moons.

The world’s first “social media astronaut” returns to earth as Channel 4 News tracks the story of Commander Hadfield’s out-of-this-world tweets.