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Cometa 46p/Wirtanen a 15.800.000 km. Picture Flickr/Pepe Manteca

Here comes a Christmas comet spectacular

Just in time for the festive season, Comet 46P/Wirtanen is making its closest pass in more than 70 years – and it’s not the only flashy visitor to our night skies this month.

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earth space globe planet world global horizon night photo blue view cloud moon design outer sunset sea concept - stock image. Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Adelaide to host Australia’s space agency

The planets have indeed aligned for Adelaide: home to Australia’s new space agency that will triple the nation’s space economy to $12 billion.

Voyager 2 passes beyond the heliopause. Picture: NASA

Voyager 2 goes interstellar

The little space probe that can, Voyager 2, has defied all expectations and sent back data as it crossed into interstellar space, 40 years after it was launched.

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FILE - This image made available by NASA shows the planet Mars. This composite photo was created from over 100 images of Mars taken by Viking Orbiters in the 1970s. In our solar system family, Mars is Earthâ€™s next-of-kin, the next-door relative that has captivated humans for millennia. The attraction is sure to grow on Monday, Nov. 26 with the arrival of a NASA lander named InSight. (NASA via AP, File)

First sounds heard from red planet

In what NASA had labelled an “unplanned treat” the Mars lander has released audio of sounds from the red planet never heard before.

CIMON, the artificial intelligence 'companion' aboard the International Space Station.

Space station robot goes rogue

Houston, we have a problem. The International Space Station’s artificial intelligence ‘companion’ robot started giving attitude soon after it was activated and had to be switched off.

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1982. ET character and child actor Henry Thomas in a scene from the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

NASA: ‘Aliens could have visited Earth’

It’s a prediction you’d expect to hear from a doomsday prepper. But a scientist at the US space agency claims aliens could have actually visited Earth at some point.

The Curiosity rover made a shiny discovery this week on Mars. Picture: NASA

Curiosity Rover spots ‘shiny’ object on Mars

The Curiosity Rover has been exploring the surface of Mars since 2012 and has no plans to slow down now. It’s latest discovery has NASA scientists amazed.

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Physicists found signs of four death spirals between two black holes, hidden in data collected last year. Picture: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library

‘Most cataclysmic event in the universe’

Australian scientists have revealed a stunning discovery about enormous star-eating black holes that lurk at the centre of galaxies.

Contact made with ‘hazardous’ asteroid

Contact made with ‘hazardous’ asteroid

After a two year journey, NASA has made contact with an ancient fragment of the universe that, if all goes according to plan, will allow us to better understand the origin of life.

Russia's Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft carrying the members of the International Space Station (ISS) expedition 58/59, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, NASA astronaut Anne McClain and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency, blasts off to the ISS from the launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome on December 3, 2018. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

Russian rocket blasts off after failure

Astronauts from America, Canada and Russia have successfully been blasted into space en route to the International Space Station after an aborted mission in October.

Photograph of night sky showing shape believed to be an unidentified flying object (UFO). Filed 05 Apr 1965. (Pic copyright unknown)

Rare audio from Aussie UFO mystery

A key witness in a 1966 mass UFO sighting in Melbourne claimed the object was “playing games” with local planes in chilling rare audio.

Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2017 shortlist selection: ISS Daylight Transit © Dani Caxete (Spain)The International Space Station (ISS) whizzes across the dusky face of the Earth’s natural satellite, the Moon, whilst photographed in broad daylight. Shining with a magnitude of -3.5, the ISS was illuminated by the Sun at a height of 9º on the horizon. Like the Moon, the ISS receives solar rays in a similar way during its 15 orbits of the Earth a day, making it possible to see it when the Sun is still up. This is a real shot, with no composite or clipping in the process.Madrid, Spain, 2 April 2017

NASA reveals new Moon strategy

NASA has just announced a $3.6 billion plan to help get humans onto the Moon as soon as possible. But in a totally unprecedented way.

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Here’s what the Earth could look like in 200million years. Source: The Conversation

How earth could look in millions of years

Maps of Earth in the future could look very different than they do today. Here’s what the Earth could look like in 200 million years.

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APOLLO 17 ASTRONAUT WITH AMERICAN FLAG ON MOON, DECEMBER 1972

NASA to return to the Moon ‘to stay’

For the first time in nearly 50 years, NASA will journey to the Moon. The announcement is set to come days after the agency successfully sent a rover to Mars.

Two times around Earth in 15-minutes. The extraordinary pictures captured from space. Picture: ESA

Magical time lapse shows Earth from space

An astronaut has captured more than 21,000 images of Earth from space during two trips around our home planet, and the result is breathtaking.

The Opportunity rover snapped these small 'spherules' (also known as 'blueberries') on the Martian surface in April 2004. The area shown here is 1.2 inches across, and was taken using a microscopic imager on Opportunity's robotic arm. The colour information was added from the rover's panoramic camera. Picture: NASA

Unreal collection of pictures from Mars

As Earth’s closest neighbour, Mars has been a fascination for human kind for hundreds of years. This is how we have photographed it over the years.

An artists impression of the European Space Agency's Beagle spacecraft's descent toward the surface of Mars. The space craft crashed onto Mars on Christmas Day 2003.

Epic Mars landing ends decades of fails

Mars is littered with failed attempts by humans to study its atmosphere. The planet is a graveyard for probes, making this week’s probe landing extra special.

This handout image released by NASA/JPL-Caltech on November 26, 2018 and acquired by NASA's InSight Mars lander using its robotic arm-mounted, Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) shows a view from NASA's InSight lander after it touched down on the surface of Mars. - NASA's USD 993 million Mars InSight lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet to listen for quakes and study how rocky planets formed, the US space agency said. (Photo by HO / NASA/JPL-CALTECH / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Life on Mars: NASA probe’s epic photo

The first images from NASA’s new Mars probe may have thrilled space nuts – but they underwhelmed most of us. Now the intergalactic visitor is serving up some serious planetary porn.

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This handout image released by NASA/JPL-Caltech on November 26, 2018 and acquired by NASA's InSight Mars lander using its robotic arm-mounted, Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) shows a view from NASA's InSight lander after it touched down on the surface of Mars. - NASA's USD 993 million Mars InSight lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet to listen for quakes and study how rocky planets formed, the US space agency said. (Photo by HO / NASA/JPL-CALTECH / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Life on Mars: NASA probe’s epic photo

The first images from NASA’s new Mars probe may have thrilled space nuts – but they underwhelmed most of us. Now the intergalactic visitor is serving up some serious planetary porn.

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AUS50TH 1969: 20/07/1969. Photo of astronaut Edwin Alrin Jnr walking on the moon taken by Neil Armstrong during Apollo 11 lunar landing. 1960s. Moon. Space exploration. Picture: Supplied

Russia to ‘verify’ NASA Moon landing

The head of Russia’s space agency probably had his tongue in his cheek when he said his next mission to the Moon would check if the Apollo missions actually happened. Probably.

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Harvesting the energy of a star is regarded as a potential sign of advanced alien civilisations. Picture: The movie Sunshine

Ancient star’s ‘alien megastructure’

It’s one of the first signs of an advanced alien civilisation — an erratically blinking star. Now astronomers have found a second contender for first contact.

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This crater holds key to alien search

NASA has revealed where our next mission to Mars will take place and says it will revolutionise how we think about the planet and its ability to harbour life.

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Google Doodle honours first space message

Thanks to the Arecibo Message, in 25,000 years Earth could find out if something else exists outside our solar system

Nuclear bomb or asteroid impact creates a nuke mushroom

Scientists shocked by massive meteorite

A scarily large meteorite crater has just been discovered in Greenland. It hit the world with the force of 700,000,000 nuclear bombs.

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A handout picture released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on November 13, 2018, shows an artist's impression of the surface of a

‘Super-Earth’ found right next door

A ‘super-Earth’ has been found orbiting the closest solo star to our own. It has huge implications for the chances of extraterrestrial life.

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A picture taken last week from the first lander, during a

Three asteroids heading towards Earth

NASA has put out asteroid alerts as three space rocks are set to skim past Earth while we are sleeping this weekend.

(MANDATORY CREDIT David Montgomery/Getty Images) British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, Cambridge, January 1993. (Photo by David Montgomery/Getty Images)

The world’s most expensive wheelchair

Stephen Hawking’s prized possessions have gone to auction, and famous motorised wheelchair made much more than expected.

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A partial model of Chinese space station is seen on display at the Airshow China 2018 in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong province on November 6, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / WANG Zhao - China unveiled a replica of its first permanently crewed space station, which would replace the international community's orbiting laboratory and symbolises the country's major ambitions beyond Earth. (Photo by WANG ZHAO / AFP)

China’s ‘Heavenly Palace’ space station

CHINA has unveiled plans for a hi-tech new space station that symbolises its major ambitions beyond Earth.

'Oumuamua as it appeared using the William Herschel Telescope on the night of October 29th, 2017. Credit: Queen’s University Belfast/William Herschel Telescope

Strange ‘alien light sail’ found

ASTRONOMERS have spotted something really odd. And a professor suggests it was an alien solar sail sent in search for life.

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The Dawn space probe, which has just run out of fuel, was propelled by an ion engine using charged particles from Xenon gas fuel. Picture: NASA / Caltech

Space engine’s ‘impossible’ drive

A SIMPLE copper cone appears to pull propulsion out of nowhere. Now the US is betting $1.4m on this “impossible” space drive.

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