This week in space: Chang'e 5 returns samples from the Moon, Russia launches a huge new rocket, dark matter theory may have a challenger and loads more...

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Pick o' the podcasts:

Main engine cut-off: The flight of starship SN8

From the video store:

Russia's new, gigantic, Angara A5 rocket launches:

SpaceX launches the SiriusXM satellite

Astra's tiny rocket makes it to space 

Large meteorites over the Popecatepetl volcano... 

...and over Norway

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Chang'e 5 sample return capsule recovered. 

The mind melting scale of voids and supervoids

Arianespace launches 36 more satellites for the OneWeb satellite internet constellation

Earth from space: Lapland

Reading material:

ESA begins working on a re-useable rocket booster

If we use the Sun's gravity as lens, this is the view we'd get of a planet around the nearest star

Canada to send people to the Moon

Saturn and Jupiter to align over Christmas

Gas filament 50 million light years long discovered

Could modified gravity challenge dark matter theory to explain how our universe behaves?

New engine test facility to help build UK's future in space

Blue Origin's New Glen booster to compete for government contracts