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Birth of baby planet captured

Astronomers have managed to capture pictures showing the birth of a new planet for the first time, thanks to Europe’s Very Large Telescope.

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The supermoon rises behind Tower Bridge, in London, Thursday, May 7, 2020. The supermoon is a phenomenon that happens when the moon is at its closest point to the earth and looks larger than usual. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Incredible pics of Supermoon around the world

It was the last magical supermoon of 2020 and Australians were in prime position to view it. Here are the best pics from around the world.

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Tom Cruise Sitting On Top Of The Burj Khalifa From his website

Tom Cruise’s extreme new movie location

Hollywood loves a good space movie but Tom Cruise is reportedly set to go one step further, teaming up with NASA on a new film.

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LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 20: (EDITORS NOTE: Multiple exposures were combined in camera to produce this image.) Stars illuminate the sky on a clear night in Forest Hill on April 20, 2020 in London, England. The clear skies created by the New Moon coincide with the Lyrid meteor shower, an annual display caused by the Earth passing through a cloud of debris from a comet called C/186 Thatcher. (Photo by Simon Robling/Getty Images)

Meteors to light up sky

Meteor showers aren’t exactly uncommon, but the latest has one distinct advantage for Australians over others seen through the year.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 10, 2019, SpaceX founder Elon Musk (2nd L) addresses the media alongside NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine (L), and astronauts Douglas Hurley (2nd R) and Robert Behnken (R), during a press conference announcing new developments of the Crew Dragon reusable spacecraft, at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. - A SpaceX rocket will send astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets to the International Space Station on May 27, 2020, NASA announced on May 1, the first crewed spaceflight from the US in nearly a decade. (Photo by Philip Pacheco / AFP)

NASA relying on Bezos, Musk

The space agency that first landed man on the moon plans to return people to its surface by 2024, but it’s going to need some help to do it.

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Pentagon releases video of UFO incidents

Pentagon releases video of UFO incidents

For years pilots have reported seeing flying objects they couldn’t identify. Videos have circulated online, but the US has now officially released them.

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A composite image of meteors in the Lyrid shower over the US state of Texas in 2012. Picture: NASA

Meteor shower to light up the sky

One of the world’s oldest meteor showers is taking place again this week. Here’s when you can see the glorious Lyrid meteor shower at your place.

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NASA astronaut Jessica Meir is seen inside the Soyuz MS-15 capsule shortly after landing in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan (Zhezkazgan), Kazakhstan, on April 17, 2020. - Two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut on April 17 made a safe return from the International Space Station to find the planet transformed by the coronavirus pandemic. Andrew Morgan, Jessica Meir and Oleg Skripochka touched down in central Kazakhstan at 0516 GMT in the first returning mission since the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic in March. (Photo by Andrey Shelepin/GCTC / Russian Space Agency Roscosmos / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Astronauts return to virus-stricken Earth

Astronauts have returned from the International Space Station to an Earth that’s very different to the one they left as the coronavirus pandemic upturns the world.

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The mystery of the sailing stones was only solved a few years ago. Picture Wiki

Mysterious rocks that move themselves

These mysterious rocks appear to move “on their own” in the desert of Death Valley. Now NASA has explained just how it happens.

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The lander's on-board camera shows the Mars landscape

Weird fix for NASA’s stuck lander

Desperate times call for desperate measures and NASA is no exception. The US space agency issued some self-destructive instructions to its Mars lander after it became stuck.

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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 09: Elon Musk, founder and chief engineer of SpaceX speaks at the 2020 Satellite Conference and Exhibition March 9, 2020 in Washington, DC. Musk answered a range of questions relating to SpaceX projects during his appearance at the conference. Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Massive flaw in Musk’s Mars hype

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk is on a mission to colonise Mars, but his latest tweet about it reveals he still has a lot to learn.

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In this Dec. 17, 2019 photo made available by NASA, engineers watch the first driving test for the Mars 2020 rover in a clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. On Thursday, March 5, 2020, NASA announced the explorer's name will be

Student names new Mars rover

NASA’s new Mars rover designed to bring samples back to Earth finally has an official name, courtesy of a year 7 student.

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First ever alien find in meteorite

First ever alien find in meteorite

It’s taken three decades but scientists think they’ve discovered alien protein inside a meteorite that crashed to Earth.

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This image made available by NASA on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020 shows the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster viewed in a composite of X-ray, radio and infrared data. The inset image at bottom right shows data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory which confirmed a cavity formed by a record-breaking explosion from a super-massive black hole. The explosion was so large it carved out a crater in the hot gas that could hold 15 Milky Ways, said lead author Simona Giacintucci of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington. (Chandra: NASA/CXC/NRL/S. Giacintucci, et al., XMM: ESA/XMM; Radio: NCRA/TIFR/GMRT; Infrared: 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF via AP)

Biggest explosion in history of the universe

Scientists didn’t think it was possible, but a supermassive black hole 390 million light-years away caused the biggest explosion ever.

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This artist’s impression shows the supergiant star Betelgeuse as it was revealed thanks to different state-of-the-art techniques on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, which allowed two independent teams of astronomers to obtain the sharpest ever views of the supergiant star Betelgeuse. They show that the star has a vast plume of gas almost as large as our Solar System and a gigantic bubble boiling on its surface. These discoveries provide important clues to help explain how these mammoths shed material at such a tremendous rate. The scale in units of the radius of Betelgeuse as well as a comparison with the Solar System is also provided. Picture: ESO / M. Montargès et al.

‘Exploding’ star ‘right on schedule’

Astronomers were obsessed over a dimming star, thinking it could go supernova and explode. But the reality isn’t quite what they thought.

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The mini-moon as it appears orbiting Earth.

New ‘mini-moon’ orbiting Earth

The moon you know and love might not be alone. There’s a possibility a new miniature version is orbiting Earth now as well.

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Dr O'Donoghue's ranking of the Saturn emojis has sparked a new trend.

Ranking we ‘didn’t know we needed’

The world’s most popular messaging app also appears to rank highly in the scientific accuracy of its emojis, according to a planetary expert.

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Elon Musk tweeted the racy, anime inspired design to his millions of followers.

Elon Musk’s racy new rocket design

The Tesla founder has shown off a potential new design for his SpaceX project that hopes to send a colonisation mission to Mars.

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The parachute detached during launch. Picture: Justin Chapman / Twitter

Man dies trying to prove Earth is flat

A daredevil has died in a crash in a homemade rocket in an attempt to prove the Earth is flat. WARNING: Graphic content.

NASA’s planet-hunting satellite TESS helps discover a 'super-Earth' and two gaseous sub-Neptune-sized planets orbiting a nearby star 73 light years away

Expert finds proof parallel universes exist

The world of theoretical physics has been turned on its head by the idea we are close to being able to prove the existence of alternate realities.

Picture tweeted the US Space Force account. Space Force uniform

New names for controversial force

Donald Trump’s controversial new military division has given its members their first mission, and it might be harder than it sounds.

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SETI scientists plan to develop a system that will “piggyback” on the Very Large Array (VLA) telescope based in Mexico and provide data to their technosignature search system. Picture: Twitter SETI Institute.

Scientists new plan to find alien life

US scientists have detailed a new state-of-the-art search for extraterrestrial intelligence – and the general public can join in.

The new repeating fast radio burst (red circle) was traced to a star forming region arm of a fairly ordinary spiral galaxy, unlike the previous localisation of the first repeater. Picture: Nature

Galaxy’s mystery repeating radio bursts

A series of radio chirps is being blasted across the gulf of space every 16 days. They’re powerful enough to light up the sky. But nobody knows why.

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FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2020, file photo Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, speaks during a news conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Tesla is now worth more than General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler combined, even though the Big Three together sell more cars and trucks in two weeks than Tesla does in a whole year. It is now worth five times what it was in June, when there were whispers of bankruptcy surrounding the company founded by the erratic visionary Musk. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Elon Musk’s plan to fix our crap internet

An ambitious plan from a well-known tech maverick is one step closer to reality after receiving approval by Australian regulators.

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(FILES) This file photo taken on October 9, 2018 shows Yusaku Maezawa, entrepreneur and then-chief of online fashion company Zozo and SpaceX BFR's first private passenger, poses with a miniature rocket and space helmet prior to start of a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo. - A Japanese billionaire has launched an online wanted ad -- a girlfriend who will fly around the Moon with him on a SpaceX rocket. The deadline to apply is January 17, 2020. (Photo by Toshifumi KITAMURA / AFP)

Billionaire dumps bizarre search for girlfriend

Tens of thousands of women signed up to accompany a Japanese billionaire into space, but the lonely mogul has had a change of heart.

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FILE - In this Thursday, March 14, 2019 file photo, U.S. astronaut Christina Koch, member of the main crew of the expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), speaks with her relatives through a safety glass prior the launch of Soyuz MS-12 space ship at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Koch told The Associated Press on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, her 319th consecutive day in space _ that taking part in the first all-female spacewalk was the highlight of her mission. She's been living on the International Space Station since March and returns to Earth on Feb. 6, landing in Kazakhstan with two colleagues aboard a Russian capsule. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, Pool)

Surprising food astronaut craves

It’s been a pioneering 11 months in space for this astronaut, but as she prepares to return to Earth, there’s one snack on her mind.

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This NASA file photo obtained January 29,2020, shows an illustration of IRAS, one of the satellites at risk of colliding, that was launched and later retired in 1983. - A space telescope launched in 1983 and an American experimental satellite from 1967, both out of service, will pass within 100 meters of each other over the United States on January 29, 2020, with a collision probability estimated at 1 out of 1,000, according to space surveillance companies. Each satellite flies in opposite orbits and they therefore risk colliding head-on, with a relative speed of almost 15 kilometers per second. (Photo by Handout / NASA / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Dead satellites on collision course

There’s a chance two dead satellites orbiting Earth could collide within minutes, and the odds are looking worryingly likely.

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A picture of the Chang'e-4 Picture: CNSA/CLEP/Doug Ellison

China release eerie moon pics

A massive trove of new images from the dark side of the moon have been released by China’s space agency, marking one year in space.

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The new uniforms have caused a social media uproar

‘Ridiculous’ flaw with new space uniform

People lost it when they heard Trump had created a US Space Force. But now the uniform might be even more hilarious.

A Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket lifts off from pad 39A during a test flight to demonstrate the capsule's emergency escape system at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Musk’s rocket ‘blows up’ after launch

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has continued its rocket testing with a test which involved blowing up the Falcon 9 in flight.

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