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Shock theory in hunt for Planet 9

A new theory about the mysterious Planet Nine has suggested something else is lurking deep in our solar system.

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Billion dollar machine to unlock universe

Every now and then humanity embarks on a massive project to expand the boundaries of our collective knowledge. This will be among the most important.

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Lunar eclipse from Bellara very early Saturday morning Photo: Esko Klemola

Aussies to miss ‘super blood wolf moon’

A rare astrological occurrence will be watched by a staggering 2.8 billion people on Monday, when the moon turns a coppery red colour, but Australians won’t see it first-hand.

66 million years ago an asteroid struck this peninsula and wiped out most life on Earth. Picture: TIM PEAKE/ESA/NASA

More asteroids than ever hitting Earth

Asteroid collisions with Earth are getting more frequent and the enhanced impact rate poses “a threat for the next mass extinction event”.

US President Donald Trump (L) gives a thumbs up as he is welcomed by the French president for bilateral talks at the Elysee Palace in Paris on November 10, 2018 on the sidelines of commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of the 11 November 1918 armistice, ending World War I. (Photo by ludovic MARIN / AFP)

Trump vows ‘space-based missile defence’

Donald Trump has pledged to develop an space-based missile defence system to protect against advanced hypersonic and cruise missile threats from competitors and adversaries.

CORRECTION - This handout photograph taken on January 12, 2019 and received from Chongqing University on January 15 shows a cotton sprout (L) growing in an

China sprouts first seed on the moon

China has sprouted a seedling on the far side of the moon, becoming the first plant life ever to grow on the lunar landscape.

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A handout image of an artist's impression released by the European Space Agency on June 27, 2018 shows of the first interstellar object discovered in the Solar System, Oumuamua. - A scientific paper led by two researchers at Harvard University made a splash this week by claiming that a cigar-shaped rock zooming through our solar system may have been sent by aliens. The researchers noted in pre-print of the article that it was an

Professor defends alien probe belief

A Harvard University professor who says a strange interstellar object passing through our solar system may be an alien space probe has come out fighting against his critics.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 24, 2018 the full moon is pictured from Rome. - Until today, only three countries have managed to land on the surface of the moon, some 384,000 kilometers from the Earth: Russia, the United States and China. (Photo by Laurent EMMANUEL / AFP)

Pictures from dark side of the moon

China’s historic mission to the far side of the moon has beamed back photos from the part of the lunar surface that never faces Earth.

By using steam rather than fuel, the World Is Not Enough (WINE) spacecraft prototype can theoretically explore “forever,” as long as water and sufficiently low gravity is present. Picture: UCF

Steampunk solution to space travel

Warp-drives? Impulse engines? Forget all that. NASA’s on a quest to invent steam-powered spaceships. And it could solve its most pressing problem.

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Geelong space photos: Horsehead Nebula. Picture: Gerald Grech (MUST CREDIT)

Mystery signals coming from space

Odd, intense radio bursts are filling our sky. They last a fraction of a second, and are powerful. Aliens haven’t been ruled out.

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NASA reveals images of jupiter's fiery red moon

NASA reveals Jupiter’s fiery red moon

The most active volcanic body in existence put on quite a show for NASA last month. New images show the erupting surface of Jupiter’s moon.

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China’s Chang'e-4 lunar probe taking off on Dec. 8 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province. The probe is expected to make the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the Moon this week. JIANG HONGJING/XINHUA/ZUMA PRESS

China lands first spacecraft on the moon

China has made a giant leap in the race to become a space superpower, landing it’s lunar rover successfully on the far side of the moon.

This handout image released January 2, 2019 by NASA, the first color image of Ultima Thule, taken at a distance of 85,000 miles (137,000 kilometers) at 4:08 Universal Time on January 1, 2019, highlights its reddish surface. At left is an enhanced color image taken by the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC), produced by combining the near infrared, red and blue channels. The center image taken by the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) has a higher spatial resolution than MVIC by approximately a factor of five. At right, the color has been overlaid onto the LORRI image to show the color uniformity of the Ultima and Thule lobes. Note the reduced red coloring at the neck of the object. - NASA rang in the New Year on Tuesday, January 1, 2019 with a historic flyby of the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever explored by humankind -- a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule -- in the hopes of learning more about how planets took shape. (Photo by HO / NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute / AFP) / == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / MANDATORY CREDIT:

NASA reveals furthest object ever found

NASA has proudly revealed an “entirely new kind of world” it discovered deep in space. The first images show an object very similar to a snowman.

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FILE - This illustration provided by NASA shows the New Horizons spacecraft. NASA launched the probe in 2006; it's about the size of a baby grand piano. NASAâ€™s New Horizons spacecraft is set to fly past the mysterious object nicknamed Ultima Thule at 12:33 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP)

NASA pulls off historic mission

NASA scientists have conducted a historic flyby of the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever explored.

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Couple planning to move to Mars

A couple who met through a Facebook group for aspiring Martians has signed up to be part of the first colony on the planet in 2032.

UFO spotted across SA. Santa or Space X? Photo: Tarquin Schahinger

Santa or SpaceX? Weird light spotted

A strange, oddly-shaped light, spotted in the early hours of Monday morning has left people across the state scratching their heads. So what was it?

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. The rocket is carrying the U.S. Air Force's most powerful GPS satellite ever built. (Craig Bailey/Florida Today via AP)

SpaceX record-breaking rocket launched

After several attempts, Elon Musk’s SpaceX finally made lift-off. The Tesla founder has launched the first national security space mission for the US.

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The question mark shaped apparition left Californians scratching their heads.

Question mark in the sky sparks theories

Strange, glowing light over California this week has left thousands puzzled, asking what was behind the question mark-shaped apparition.

A handout image of an artist's impression released by the European Space Agency on June 27, 2018 shows of the first interstellar object discovered in the Solar System, Oumuamua. - A scientific paper led by two researchers at Harvard University made a splash this week by claiming that a cigar-shaped rock zooming through our solar system may have been sent by aliens. The researchers noted in pre-print of the article that it was an

We totally missed ‘first contact’

The bizarre space object Oumuamua has scientists completely baffled. It’s possible we may have just missed first contact with aliens.

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Something weird is happening on Saturn

NASA has warned new evidence shows the planet’s iconic rings are disappearing in a “worst case scenario”.

A handout image of an artist's impression released by the European Space Agency on June 27, 2018 shows of the first interstellar object discovered in the Solar System, Oumuamua. - A scientific paper led by two researchers at Harvard University made a splash this week by claiming that a cigar-shaped rock zooming through our solar system may have been sent by aliens. The researchers noted in pre-print of the article that it was an

We totally missed ‘first contact’

It could be an asteroid. It could be a comet. It could be a space probe sent from another star. The mystery of ‘Oumuamua continues to grow.

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Google Maps captures a strange UFO like object in Florida. Picture: Google Maps

Brazen ‘UFO’ captured on Google Maps

An eagle-eyed Google Maps user has reported a “UFO sighting” in broad daylight, just outside the mysterious Bermuda Triangle.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 29, 2017 (FILES) In this file photo taken on September 28, 2017 Billionaire entrepreneur and founder of SpaceX Elon Musk speaks at the 68th International Astronautical Congress 2017 in Adelaide. - Embattled Tesla chief Elon Musk rejected fraud charges made by securities regulators on September 27, 2018, accusing him of misleading investors over plans to take the electric automaker private.

Rocket grounded as SpaceX misfires

The long-delayed launch of Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has been thwarted again after a computer malfunctioned minutes before take-off.

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‘Farout’ object may lead to Planet X

When astronomers spotted a new dwarf planet 100 times further out than Earth is from the Sun, one exclaimed: “far out”. It kind of stuck

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Artist’s rendering of the Europa “tunnelbot.” Credit: Alexander Pawlusik, LERCIP Internship Program NASA Glenn Research Center

Nuclear ‘tunnelbot’ probes alien life

It’s the most enticing destination in the solar system. It looks little more than a giant snowball. But now NASA thinks it can probe it.

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A supplied image obtained on Thursday, December 13, 2018, of The Christmas Comet - which is named for the time of year it appears - is expected to emerge from 9pm AEDT as a green and fuzzy comet in the east, close to the constellation known as Orion. (AAP Image/Supplied by NASA) NO ARCHIVING

Christmas comet and meteor visible from Earth

The sky was lit overnight, with a gigantic, “ghostly green” comet and meteor shower putting on a show for budding astronomers.

Jess Lee and her kids Max, 7, and Zoe, 5, love their Elf on the Shelf in Clayton Sth. Picture: Susan Windmiller

Elf on the Shelf journeys to outer space

Hiding the Elf on the Shelf is annoying for any parent, but a group of astronauts will seriously struggle to hide this little elf in zero gravity.

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View from Virgin Galactic at 80km.

What you’ll see from Virgin’s spaceship

Billionaire Richard Branson is on his way to the stars. His Virgin Galactic spaceship has made it to the edge of space. And for a mere $345,000, you can too.

This composite image made available by NASA on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018 shows the InSight lander on the surface of Mars. The InSight lander used the camera on its long robotic arm to snap a series of pictures assembled into a selfie. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

NASA’s Mars lander takes space selfie

NASA’s Mars lander certainly isn’t camera shy, using its long robotic arm to snap a range of stunning pictures of the red planet.

The mysterious hole has been the subject of rumour and conspiracy. Picture: NASA/TV

Mystery spaceship hole conspiracy

Cosmonauts have inspected a “small but dangerous” hole in Russian spacecraft Soyuz as sinister rumours fly about who or what made it.

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