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Man ‘spent 10 days in alien civilisation’

ALEC Newald says he was abducted by aliens and taken to an extraterrestrial civilisation for 10 days. Here’s what he claims happened.

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This handout photo released on October 31, 2018 by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) shows an image taken by an exquisitely sensitive Gravity instrument which has added further evidence to the long-standing assumption that a supermassive black hole lurks in the centre of the Milky Way. - New observations show clumps of gas swirling around at about 30% of the speed of light on a circular orbit just outside a four million solar mass black hole — the first time material has been observed orbiting close to the point of no return, and the most detailed observations yet of material orbiting this close to a black hole. This visualisation uses data from simulations of orbital motions of gas swirling around at about 30% of the speed of light on a circular orbit around the black hole. (Photo by HO / European Southern Observatory / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Staring into a black hole’s abyss

FOR the first time, a black hole has been caught in the act — sucking down matter so fast it explodes into clouds of superheated plasma.

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Rogue star’s threat to planet Earth

A WANDERING star grazed our solar system 70,000 years ago — spooking our early ancestors and jostling comets out of its path. Now another has been spotted and it’s heading our way.

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Darth Vader, a Jedi knight that fell under the influence of the 'dark side'. Picture: Star Wars

‘Dark star’ find could lead to shadow life

THERE’s a mysterious dark force in our universe. We can’t see it. We don’t know what it is. But some believe it could have its own cold stars — and shadow life.

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Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2018 Winners: Transport the Soul © Brad Goldpaint (USA) - WINNER AND OVERALL WINNERInterested in adding a 'human element' to his photographs, once the quarter moon rose and revealed the incredible, vast landscape of the shale hills below the viewpoint, the lone photographer, to the left of the frame, stood motionless while he captured this photograph. The Andromeda Galaxy, quarter moon, Milky Way Galaxy, and position of the photographer all combined to create a captivating, harmonious portrait of a night sky photographer at work.Moab, Utah, USA, 20 May 2017

The most incredible photos of space

FROM red rock formations to the glorious Milky Way, the spectacular images a photography contest tell an awe-inspiring story.

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FILE - MARCH 14: Renowned British Physicist Stephen Hawking has passed away at his home in Cambridge, March 14, 2018. LONDON - JANUARY 17: Professor Stephen Hawking delivers his speech at the release of the 'Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' on January 17, 2007 in London, Ebgland. A group of scientists assessing the dangers posed to civilisation have moved the Doomsday Clock forward two minutes closer to midnight as an indication and warning of the threats of nuclear war and climate change. (Photo by Bruno Vincent/Getty Images)

Stephen Hawking’s possessions auctioned

IF YOU have a spare $20,000, you could nab some of the famous physicist’s prized possessions when they go under the hammer later this month.

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(FILES) This file photo taken on August 10, 2014 shows the full moon nicknamed

China’s bizarre fake ‘moon’ plan

CHINA has come up with a bizarre plan that will transform the sky. And it’s totally out of this world.

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An artist's impression of one of the identical Mars Explorationrovers. Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell University, Maas Digital LLCFor Martin George Space column for Hobart Mercury

Judgment day looms for Mars mission

SCIENTISTS are set to make a major decision about the search for alien life on Mars as NASA prepares for a critical mission to the Red Planet.

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How astronauts survived incredible crush

TWO astronauts were crushed back in their seats at five times their body weight when a rocket launch went wrong. This is how they survived.

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Russia's Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft carrying the members of the International Space Station (ISS) expedition 57/58, Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague, blasts off to the ISS from the launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Baikonur on October 11, 2018. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

Scary escape for space crew

UPDATE: US and Russian International Space Station crew made an emergency landing after their rocket suffered a booster malfunction during launch in Kazakhstan.

Space crew makes emergency landing

Criminal probe after disastrous rocket failure

RUSSIA has launched a criminal investigation to determine why a rocket carrying two ISS astronauts failed after liftoff, forcing them into a “ballistic” landing.

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ESCAPE. Larapinta trail, Celeste Mitchell - Milky Way over the outback desert of New South Wales near Silverton, Australia Picture: istock

Strange cosmic bursts stump astronomers

SCIENTISTS are scratching their heads over one of the great astrophysical mysteries in the field after a new discovery.

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SANTA BARBARA, CA - OCTOBER 07: The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket (R) separates from the space craft (L) behind the rocket trail after launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base carrying the SAOCOM 1A and ITASAT 1 satellites, as seen on October 7, 2018 near Santa Barbara, California. After launching the satellites, the Falcon 9 rocket sucessfully returned to land on solid ground near the launch site rather than at sea. The satellites will become part of a six-satellite constellation that will work in tandem with an Italian constellation known as COSMO-SkyMed. David McNew/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Crowds bewildered by SpaceX ‘UFO’

RESIDENTS, frozen where they stood, pulled out their phones to document what they thought was the first glimpse of alien life.

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This illustration provided by Dan Durda shows the exoplanet Kepler-1625b with a hypothesized moon. On Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018, two Columbia University researchers reported their results that the potential exomoon would be the size of Neptune or Uranus. The exoplanet, about 8,000 light-years away, is as big as Jupiter. (Dan Durda via AP)

Alien moon found outside solar system

ASTRONOMERS have detected the first moon outside of our solar system, which has been seen orbiting around a planet several times larger than Jupiter.

Scientists may have discovered Planet X

Hunt for Planet X uncovers new ‘object’

A NEW discovery by scientists searching for ‘Planet X’ could have found the most compelling evidence yet that the mysterious orb exists.

This is an artist's impression of the object, which has been described as an

Skull-shaped asteroid to pass Earth

AN ASTEROID, shaped eerily like a skull, is due to fly close to Earth around Halloween. The sheer size of it could mean devastation if it ever hit Earth.

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Avoid Florida if you're on a UFO sight seeing trip. Aliens aren't too fond of this state. Picture: casino.org

Map reveals most bizarre UFO sightings

THE search for alien life has occupied humans for hundreds of years. This is where they are most likely to be spotted.

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Stellar ‘corpse’ find shatters theory

SCIENTISTS have discovered a powerful jet emanating from a neutron star and it has forced astronomers to re-examine a long held assumption.

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This handout photo released by the European Southern Observatory on November 20, 2017 shows an artist's impression of the first interstellar asteroid: Oumuamua. This unique object was discovered on 19 October 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii. Subsequent observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile and other observatories around the world show that it was travelling through space for millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system. `Oumuamua seems to be a dark red highly-elongated metallic or rocky object, about 400 metres long, and is unlike anything normally found in the Solar System. / AFP PHOTO / European Southern Observatory / M. Kornmesser / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Scientists crack mystery of ‘alien’ asteroid

A GROUP of scientists claim to have identified a mysterious object spotted flying through space and thought to have been an alien spaceship.

FILE - This computer graphics image provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows an asteroid and asteroid explorer Hayabusa2. The Japanese unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa2 released two small Minerva-II-1 rovers on the asteroid Ryugu on Friday, Sept. 21, 2018, in a research effort that may provide clues to the origin of the solar system. JAXA said confirmation of the rovers' touchdown has to wait until it receives data from them on Saturday. (JAXA via AP)

Japan launches history making space mission

JAPAN has lowered two space rovers onto an asteroid in a world-first mission to shed light on the origins of the solar system.

This computer graphic image provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows two drum-shaped and solar-powered Minerva-II-1 rovers on an asteroid. Japanese unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa2 released two small Minerva-II-1 rovers on the asteroid Ryugu on Friday, Sept. 21, 2018, in a research effort that may provide clues to the origin of the solar system. JAXA said confirmation of the rovers' touchdown has to wait until it receives data from them on Saturday. (JAXA via AP)

Spacecraft lowers rovers on asteroid

JAPAN’S Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has lowered two small rovers onto an asteroid in an epic history making mission to study the distant space rock.

The shocking reason behind the FBI's mysterious raid of the Solar Observatory in New Mexico has been revealed. Picture:

Ugly truth behind bizarre observatory raid

THE mysterious evacuation of a space observatory sparked alien conspiracy theories but now the dark reason for the raid can be revealed.

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Strange observatory raid explained

THE FBI agents swept in by helicopter. The mountaintop observatory was evacuated. For days the facility was sealed off — with no explanation given. Now we know why.

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Astronomers just found a real Vulcan

WE just found Vulcan. Will Spock be next? A ‘super-Earth’ planet has been spotted orbiting the star associated with one of Star Trek’s most enduring characters. And it could be habitable.

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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly who tweets out photos every day from the International Space Station during his Year in Space

Actual astronaut offers to help Elon Musk

ELON Musk’s SpaceX lunar mission will carry artists, musicians and dancers into deep space. So this astronaut, with “a little experience” has offered his services.

HAWTHORNE, CA - SEPTEMBER 17: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks at a press conference at SpaceX headquarters where he announced the Japanese billionaire chosen by the company to fly around the moon, on September 17, 2018 in Hawthorne, California. If the project is successful Yusaka Maezawa would become the first private citizen to fly around the moon. Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Musk’s strange existential rant

BILLIONAIRE Elon Musk has made scary predictions for the future of life and his paranoid comments are just part of his manic week.

A model built using the theory of general relativity of what a supermassive black hole may look like. Picture: Monika Moscibrodzka

Stephen Hawking’s ‘ghosts’ found

ASTRONOMERS have found the ghosts of long-dead black holes, evidence of an extinct universe. And that universe may be our own.

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This photo provided by NASA shows a Delta 2 rocket carrying ICESat-2 lifting off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. NASA Earth Science Division director Michael Freilich says that the mission in particular will advance knowledge of how the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica contribute to sea level rise.(AP Photo/Matt Hartman)

NASA’s new Earth measuring satellite

A NASA mission to measure the cryosphere with powerful lasers promises to give us unprecedented insight into our changing planet.

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FBI raid sparks conspiracy theories

IT’s supposed to be watching for solar flares. But then the FBI swept in via helicopter and stormed the New Mexico solar observatory.

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Andrew Cooney watching the Geminids Meteor Shower on Killcare Beach. Picture: Andrew Cooney.

Where to see the best meteor showers

ASTRONOMERS say now is the peak time to watch the best show in the sky. Here’s where Australians can get the best view.

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