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A snapshot from a cosmological simulation of a Lyman-alpha blob similar to LAB-1. This view shows the distribution of gas within the dark matter halo, colour coded so that cold gas (mainly neutral hydrogen) appears red and hot gas appears white. Embedded at the centre of this system are two strongly star-forming galaxies, but these are surrounded by hot gas and many smaller satellite galaxies that appear as small red clumps of gas here. Lyman-alpha photons escape from the central galaxies and scatter off the cold gas associated with these satellites to give rise to an extended Lyman-alpha blob. Picture: J Geach/D Narayanan/R Crain.

Mysterious ‘force’ hints at alien life

A GROUP of scientists studying a mysterious force known as dark energy believe alien life may exist in other universes.

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Black hole could ‘gobble up our Sun’

Black hole could ‘gobble up our Sun’

AUSSIE scientists have discovered a black hole so large it is “shining thousands of times more brightly than an entire galaxy” and could devour our sun.

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MAY, 2005 : Pegasus in orbit over Europa - the icy moon of Jupiter, a hundred km deep ocean of salt water is thought to underlie this thick ice layer, in a still from Episode 2 of the TV show

New evidence for life in space

NASA scientists have found fresh evidence of water plumes of Jupiter’s moon Europa, raising hopes of discovering alien life.

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(FILES) This file handout image from NASA taken from the Space Shuttle Discovery on August 6, 2005, shows the International Space Station flying over the North Caspian Sea and Kazakhstan following the undocking of the two spacecraft. The growing number of fast-moving space debris orbiting the Earth could lead to catastrophic collisions with satellites, hurting economies, researchers warned on May 31, 2017 ahead of a summit to coordinate efforts to remove the junk. / AFP PHOTO / NASA / Handout / -----EDITORS NOTE --- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Australia’s $12 billion bet on the future

AUSTRALIA is placing a big bet on space technologies with the creation of our own space agency — and the pay-off could be huge.

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The Central Coast made national headlines in 1994 after reports of a large object beaming four or five bright lights into Brisbane Water as it took up water. Digitally altered image.

UFO mysteries from top secret project

A FORMER official at the UK’s Ministry of Defence has divulged fresh information on the circumstances surrounding a secret government UFO.

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Helix Nebula - the eye of god. Picture: NASA

How the Sun is going to die

WE won’t see it. We will long be turned to dust. But when the Sun finally dies in 10 billion years, it will leave behind a spectacular glowing epitaph.

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Medieval tapestry proof of Planet Nine?

A NEW exhibition shines a light on the Dark Ages — and may hold the key to unravel the mystery of a missing world.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 19, 2016 British scientist Stephen Hawking attends the launch of The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) at the University of Cambridge, in Cambridge, eastern England. With a science paper published after his death, Stephen Hawking has revived debate on a deeply divisive question for cosmologists: Is our Universe just one of many in an infinite, ever-expanding

Hawking’s alien search gets Aussie boost

BEFORE he died, Professor Stephen Hawking backed a key project to hunt for signs of intelligent alien life in the Milky Way.

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The NASA InSight spacecraft launches onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas-V rocket on May 5, 2018, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. NASA on May 5 launched its latest Mars lander, called InSight, designed to perch on the surface and listen for

NASA launches spacecraft to Mars

NASA launched the Insight spacecraft from California ahead of a six-month journey to Mars, where it will dig deeper than any craft before.

Jeff Bezos laid out his vision for space-tourism flights that he looks to start next year in what he hopes to bring a ‘golden age for space exploration.’ PHOTO: FERRARI/ZUMA PRESS

Amazon CEO’s plan to save the world

JEFF Bezos is a man with a mission. And he’s aiming high. So high, in fact, it’s his ambition to save civilisation from itself.

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(FILES) This file picture taken on August 18, 2002 shows Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned physicist, delivering his lecture in Beijing. Millions of Chinese mourned Stephen Hawking on March 14, 2018, bidding farewell to a

Hawking’s perfect stroke of genius

STEPHEN Hawking’s final message to the world has been revealed in a stunning new theory — and it rethinks our place in the universe.

A NASA concept image of an asteroid being torn apart by an explosion. Picture: NASA

NASA’s plan to kill a killer asteroid

RESEARCHERS have found a way to save our planet from a devastating collision with asteroid 101955 Bennu – but only if we act fast enough.

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‘100% certain we’ll be hit’

‘100% certain we’ll be hit’

A GROUP of experts fighting to save the world from catastrophic asteroid impacts claim we could all be wiped out at any moment.

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In this image provided by the European Space Agency, ESA, The ExoMars Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System, CaSSIS, captured this view of the rim of Korolev crater (73.3ÂºN/165.9ÂºE) on 15 April 2018. The European Space Agency has released its first image taken by a probe orbiting Mars, showing the ice-covered edge of a vast crater. Scientists combined three pictures taken by the Trace Gas Orbiterâ€™s camera instrument, CaSSIS, from an altitude of 400 kilometers (249 miles) on April 15. (ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS via AP)

Mars like you’ve never seen it before

IN THE first image of its kind, the Trace Gas Orbiter has captured the ice-covered edge of a vast crater on the Red Planet.

Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2017 shortlist selection: A Battle We Are Losing © Haitong Yu (China)The Milky Way rises ominously above a small radio telescope from a large array at Miyun Station, National Astronomical Observatory of China, in the suburbs of Beijing. The image depicts the ever-growing light pollution we now experience, which together with electromagnetic noise has turned many optical and radio observatories near cities both blind and deaf – a battle that inspired the photographer’s title of the shot. The image used a light pollution filter (iOptron L-Pro) and multiple frame stacking to get the most of the Milky Way out of the city light. Beijing, China, 2 March 2017

This map will ‘revolutionise astronomy’

A NEW 3D map of more than 1.7 billion stars is the most complete catalogue of our galaxy ever produced and will allow studies not possible before.

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Become the world’s first trillionaire

GLOBAL investment banking, securities and investment management firm Goldman Sachs believes it knows the key to becoming the richest person alive.

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Planet Nibiru is back. Again. Or is it?

Doomsday prophet cries ‘fake news’

EARTH will supposedly be hit any minute now by a ghost planet that will suddenly appear. But the chief prophet of this cataclysm says it will be a few weeks yet.

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This handout image obtained from the European Space Agency (ESA) on September 14, 2017 is an artist’s impression showing the exoplanet WASP-12b a pitch-black planet orbiting a star like our Sun. Scientists were able to measure its albedo: the amount of light the planet reflects. The results showed that the planet is extremely dark at optical wavelengths. / AFP PHOTO / ESA/Hubble / HO / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

New Doomsday date revealed

A CONSPIRACY theorist who predicted the world would end on Monday says there has been a slight delay — but it could begin in two weeks.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket transporting the Tess satellite lifts off from launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, April 18, 2018. The satellite known as Tess will survey almost the entire sky, staring at the brightest, closest stars in an effort to find any planets that might be encircling them. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

How TESS will lead us to alien life

THE search for Earth 2.0 has taken a giant leap forward. A new space telescope named TESS is finally in orbit — and it’s going to scan almost every star in the night sky for signs of life.

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This image made available by NASA shows an illustration of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Scheduled for an April 2018 launch, the spacecraft will prowl for planets around the closest, brightest stars. These newfound worlds eventually will become prime targets for future telescopes looking to tease out any signs of life. (NASA via AP)

NASA’s new planet hunter blasts off

WITH the help of Elon Musk, NASA is about to launch its latest satellite designed to find new planets and help lead us to alien life.

An eight-minute camera exposure shows the CSIRO radio telescope scanning the sky at Parkes in state's central west on 19/07/2009, two days before the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, which the telescope received the first images before being beamed to NASA in the United States.

Hunt for extinct pre-human civilisation

SCIENTISTS believe a global warming event that took place 56 million years ago could help us determine the fate of any civilisations that lived on Earth before us.

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Electron micrograph and chemical map of an inclusion in a graphitized region. a Bright-field (BF) STEM image and b chemical (EDX) map from graphite growth in diamond matrix around an inclusion. Blue dashed lines indicate the diamond–graphite boundary. The yellow arrows point out the Fe–S-rich regions in graphite.

Diamonds discovered from ‘lost planet’

SCIENTISTS have long theorised that the early solar system once contained many more planets — and a long lost planet has dropped some diamonds on Earth.

This image made available by NASA shows an illustration of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Scheduled for an April 2018 launch, the spacecraft will prowl for planets around the closest, brightest stars. These newfound worlds eventually will become prime targets for future telescopes looking to tease out any signs of life. (NASA via AP)

NASA satellite launch delayed

NASA’s newest planet-hunting spacecraft will have to wait a bit longer to get aloft following problems with the spacecraft’s rocket ride.

(FILES) This file computer generated handout image taken on May 15, 2015 and released by the European Space Agency (ESA) on May 15, 2015 shows the impact of the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) projectile on the binary asteroid system (65803) Didymos observed by the AIM (Asteroid Impact Mission) satellite. The Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM) is a European Space Agency’s mission, scheduled to be launched in 2020. AIM will travel to a binary asteroid system – the paired Didymos asteroids, which will come a comparatively close 11 million km to Earth in 2022. For a successful joint mission, one spacecraft, DART would impact the secondary of the Didymos binary system in October 2022 while AIM would first characterize the target asteroid (surface and internal properties), observe the impact event and measure any change in the relative orbit. / AFP PHOTO / EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY / Handout / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Asteroid barely misses Earth

A SURPRISE asteroid the size of a football field came alarmingly close to Earth on Sunday morning, just hours after being spotted by astronomers.

This undated photo made available by NASA shows technicians with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Scheduled for an April 2018 launch, the spacecraft will prowl for planets around the closest, brightest stars. These newfound worlds eventually will become prime targets for future telescopes looking to tease out any signs of life. (NASA via AP)

New NASA probe to prowl for life

NEXT week NASA will launch its new satellite designed to find new worlds and lead us to alien life, described as “a mission for the ages”.

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CSIRO's Australia Telescope Compact Array radio telescope. Picture: David Smyth.

Aussie telescope picks up alien visitor

EXACTLY what it was is still not known but telescopes in Western Australia helped identify our first known interstellar visitor.

South Australian Premier Steven Marshall and Deputy Liberal Party leader Vicky Chapman are seen leaving a party room meeting at Parliament House in Adelaide, Monday, March 26, 2018. (AAP Photo/Sam Wundke) NO ARCHIVING

To infinity and beyond, says new leader

NEW Space Industry Minister Steven Marshall says he will prioritise opportunities beyond Earth.

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Former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin gestures during a press conference on November 12, 2015 in Geneva. Aldrin attended a press conference alongside Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov and Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier on the eve of a conference in Lausanne entitled

Did Buzz Aldrin really see a UFO?

REPORTS Buzz Aldrin reportedly passed a lie-detector test over claims he saw an alien craft on his way to the moon are being questioned.

Images of one of the transient events, from 8 days before maximum brightness to 18 days afterwards. This outburst took place at a distance of 4 billion light years. Credit: M. Pursiainen / University of Southampton

Something strange is happening in space

THEY’RE incredibly bright. They’re very fast. Some 72 immense flashes of light have been seen in deep space. And nobody knows what they are.

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In this picture picture released by Fraunhofer Institute FHR, the shape of China's falling space station Tiangong-1 can be seen in this radar image from the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques near Bonn, Germany. In the next few days, the unoccupied Chinese space station, Tiangong-1, is expected to reenter the atmosphere following the end of its operational life. Most of the craft should burn up. . (Fraunhofer Institute FHR via AP)

Radar image shows incoming threat

CHINA’S out-of-control space lab is currently hurtling towards Earth and new radar images show the approaching calamity.

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