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US President Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony for Space Policy Directive 1, with the aim of returning Americans to the Moon, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC, December 11, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB

Donald Trump’s new space race

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has today directed NASA to send American astronauts to the Moon for the first time since 1972 with a new mission.

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QWEEKENDSupplied pics for Elissa Lawrence's story about Antarctica flight.

Antarctica discovery changes alien search

PLANETS that were once not even considered candidates to host alien life might be reanalysed to find habitable regions after the discovery of unique bacteria.

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A meteor captured by a police dashcam in the US. Picture: Twitter/NBC News

Cop’s dashcam catches blazing fireball

A POLICE officer in the US has managed to capture incredible footage of a large meteor streaking across the night sky.

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Jupiter's icy moon Europa. CREDIT: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute

Jupiter’s moon just got a boost for life

THERE’S something odd going on inside Jupiter’s frozen moon Europa. And its presence could dramatically boost the chances there’s alien life under the ice.

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Artist’s conception of the discovery of the most-distant quasar known. It is surrounded by neutral hydrogen, indicating that it is from the period called the epoch of reionization, when the universe's first light sources turned on.

A black hole older than the universe?

A BEHEMOTH black hole has just been discovered at the dawn of time. It shouldn’t exist. And its presence challenges the idea the universe was created with a Big Bang.

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In this Jan. 6, 2017 made available by NASA, astronaut Peggy Whitson works during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Whitson and fellow astronaut Shane Kimbrough successfully installed three new adapter plates and hooked up electrical connections for three of the six new lithium-ion batteries on the ISS. (NASA via AP)

‘Space fever’ could end Mars mission

SPACE is making our astronauts sick. We know about weakened muscles and brittle bones — but scientists are concerned about another condition that could make long space missions impossible.

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Hell planet Wasp-18b has amazed scientists. Picture: NASA

‘Death planet’ leaves scientists baffled

AN enormous world with a toxic atmosphere has been nicknamed the “death planet” and has scientists at NASA confused.

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An artist?s impression of future explorers mining the moon for minerals to supply the raw materials for an orbiting service station. Image credit: NASAMoon mining, NASA artist's impression

This is the ultimate job of the future

A FORMER English teacher has swapped the classroom for the stars and has enrolled in the world’s first space mining graduate program.

This may kill the Big Bang theory

This may kill the Big Bang theory

A TWIST in our understanding of black holes could have massive cosmic implications — and kill off the dominant theory of how the universe began.

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JULY, 2003 : Hubble Space Telescope image of dark matter, 07/03.Astronomy

Space’s darkest mystery nears end

A CHINESE satellite is collecting data that brings scientists closer to closing the case on one of the greatest mysteries in the universe.

If you want to listent to what the aliens will hear.

NASA alien recording for sale

NASA sent a special message of sounds and music into the furthest reaches of space. It seemed the only life form unable to hear it was us — until now.

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This NASA image obtained January 28, 2015 shows a composite shot of all four sounding rockets for the M-TeX and MIST experiments made up of 30 second exposures. The rocket salvo began at 4:13 a.m. EST, January 26, 2015. A fifth rocket carrying the Auroral Spatial Structures Probe remained ready on the launch pad. The launch window for this experiment ran through January 27, 2015. The interaction of solar winds and Earth’s atmosphere produces northern lights, or auroras, that move across the night sky. It produces many questions about the role it plays in Earth’s meteorological processes and the impact on the planet’s atmosphere.To help answer some of these questions, NASA suborbital sounding rockets carrying university-developed experiments -- the Mesosphere-Lower Thermosphere Turbulence Experiment (M-TeX) and Mesospheric Inversion-layer Stratified Turbulence (MIST) -- were launched into auroras from the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska. The experiments explore the Earth’s atmosphere’s response to auroral, radiation belt and solar energetic particles and associated effects on nitric oxide and ozone. AFP PHOTO/NASA/JAMIE ADKINS/HANDOUT = RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / MANDATORY CREDIT:

Aussie space base about to launch

AUSTRALIA is about to get its first commercial space station which will be launching rockets within a year, the firm behind the project said.

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$Astronomy pics - all images from Nasa's Astronomy Picture of the Day - http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160301.htmlPLEASE CREDIT AS SHOWN IN CAPTION The International Space Station over Earth Image Credit: STS-132 Crew, Expedition 23 Crew, NASAExplanation: The International Space Station is the largest object ever constructed by humans in space. The station perimeter extends over roughly the area of a football field, although only a small fraction of this is composed of modules habitable by humans. The station is so large that it could not be launched all at once -- it continues to be built piecemeal. To function, the ISS needs huge trusses, some over 15 meters long and with masses over 10,000 kilograms, to keep it rigid and to route electricity and liquid coolants. Pictured above, the immense space station was photographed from the now-retired space shuttle Atlantis after a week-long stay in 2010. Across the image top hangs part of a bright blue Earth, in stark contrast to the darkness of interstellar space across the bottom.$

Russia claims to have found alien life

IT MIGHT not be the first contact predicted by film and movies, but a Russian cosmonaut claims to have found “alien life” on the International Space Station.

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The Defence Science Technology Group and University of New South Wales 'Buccaneer' cube sat is shown in this digital rendition. It has been successfully placed in orbit. Picture DSTG/UNSW

Buccaneer blasts a way back to space

IT’S no bigger than a lunch box. But this little satellite is just the public face of an entire new network intended to lift Australia’s eyes back beyond the skies.

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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

Race to catch interstellar visitor

IT’S unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. Now a group of astronomers want to chase after this mysterious, cigar-shaped ‘alien’ object.

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Mysterious loud booms heard across globe

MYSTERY booming sounds have been recorded in 64 different places across the globe, including Australia. But NASA can’t seem to explain it.

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‘Remarkable’: NASA’s crazy Earth map

DO YOU want to see 20 years of Earth’s weather in two minutes? Well this incredible map from NASA has you covered.

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(FILES) This file handout picture released on October 16, 2016 by the European Space Agency (ESA) shows planet Mars as seen by the webcam on ESA’s Mars Express orbiter, as another mission, ExoMars, is about to reach the Red Planet. Mars is buffeted by turbulent snowstorms that occur only at night, according to a study released on August 21, 2017, that revises our understanding of Red Planet weather. Up to now, it was thought that snow falling from low-lying Martian clouds settled slowly and sparsely to the ground in a environment bereft of violent winds. The new findings, reported in the journal Nature Geoscience, suggest that ice-water particles swirling in a storm hit the ground within minutes, rather than descending gently for hours. / AFP PHOTO / EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY / HO / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

We were wrong about Mars

A NEW theory throws cold water on 2015 research that indicated lines observed on the Martian planet were a vital sign of potential life.

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

Lost ‘alien’ asteroid observed

A LOST ‘alien’ asteroid shaped like a cigar has invaded our solar system for the first time after wandering between stars for hundreds of millions of years.

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The fireball is captured in the top right hand corner as it slowly lights up the night sky. Picture: YouTube/Aurora Borealis (LIVE!)

Mystery fireball lights up skies

IT LIT up the skies over Arctic Finland for five seconds and turned night into day. Scientists are scrambling to find out where it landed.

NASA/JPL artists impression of newly discovered Neptune-sized extrasolar planet orbiting star Gilese 436. exoplanet

NASA: Alien contact ‘within 20 years’

SCIENTISTS thought the 1930 discovery of Pluto was a once-in-a-lifetime feat but we’ve discovered 3,500 potentially habitable planets since.

Luyten’s Star (GJ 273) is the target of a radio message beamed from Norway last month. Picture: METI

We’ve just sent a mix tape to aliens

DO they rock? Or roll? Do they like country with their western? Astronomers have just beamed 33 tunes towards a planet believed to be a prime candidate for life.

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This artist’s impression shows the temperate planet Ross 128 b, with its red dwarf parent star in the background. This planet, which lies only 11 light-years from Earth, was found by a team using ESO’s unique planet-hunting HARPS instrument. The new world is now the second-closest temperate planet to be detected after Proxima b. It is also the closest planet to be discovered orbiting an inactive red dwarf star, which may increase the likelihood that this planet could potentially sustain life. Ross 128 b will be a prime target for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope, which will be able to search for biomarkers in the planet's atmosphere.

New target in search for life

AS FAR as alien planets go, this one is ideal. It’s warm. Its parent star is stable. And it’s next door.

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Artist's conception pictures courtesy of NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program of the planet MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb, under the assumption that the host star has a mass of 9% of that of the Sun, which is also consistent with the microlensing data. This would be a red dwarf star about 100 times brighter than the brown dwarf, but 1000 times fainter than the Sun.

Planet so huge it may not be a planet

THERE is mysterious object in the ‘galactic bulge’ at the heart of our galaxy that is puzzling scientists because its so big it might not actually be a planet.

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WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - MAY 23: Musicians Tom DeLonge (L) and Travis Barker speak at a press party of announce the 2011 Honda Civic Tour featuring blink-182 and My Chemical Romance at the Rainbow Bar and Grill on May 23, 2011 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Blink 182 singer’s bizarre new career

FORMER Blink 182 guitarist and singer Tom Delonge walked away from the rock star life to spread the truth he knows about alien-life and technologies.

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'Sil', the embodiment of alien life 'transmitted' to Earth in the 1995 movie, Species.

Want to know what aliens look like? Ask Darwin

DON’T expect aliens to be all that … alien. In fact, Oxford University researchers say they’re most likely to be disturbingly familiar. And they have some ideas as to how they’ll look.

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In this undated image taken from AP Television, scientists in Iran surround a monkey ahead of a space launch. Iran said it had successfully sent the monkey into space on Monday, Jan. 28, 2013, describing the launch as another step toward Tehran's goal of a manned space flight. According to a brief report on state TV, the monkey was sent up to a height of 120 kilometers (72 miles) on board a rocket dubbed Pishgam, or Pioneer in Farsi. (AP Photo/AP Video)

The animals we still send to space

IT’S no longer monkeys or dogs, but lots of animals still get sent into space. Here the ISS chief scientist explains what and why.

Jenny Morrison photographed this UFO with her iPhone, off Fitzroy Island, on Saturday afternoon. WHAT IS IT????

Woman photographs ‘UFO’ over Reef

A WOMAN believes she has snapped a picture of a bright “flying saucer” over the Great Barrier Reef.

This image released on October 31, 2017 by the University of Warwick shows an artist's impression of sunrise on planet NGTS-1b. NGTS-1b, a

‘Monster’ planet discovery stuns scientists

ASTRONOMERS have discovered a massive distant planet which is so surprising that it contradicts theories of planet formation.

This glowing orb seen in the skies above Siberia late last week was immediately attributed to 'aliens'. But it has far more disturbing Earthly implications. Picture: Alexey Yakovlev/Twitter

Strange ‘alien’ orb linked to Putin

THIS enormous, ominous glowing orb over the skies of Siberia at first inevitably evoked cries of ‘aliens’. But the real cause turns out to be even more disturbing.

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