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A handout photo released by the European Space Agency on August 31, 2017 shows an artist's impression of the view from the surface of one of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. At least seven planets orbit this ultracool dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth and they are all roughly the same size as the Earth. Several of the planets are at the right distances from their star for liquid water to exist on the surfaces. This artist’s impression is based on the known physical parameters of the planets and stars seen, and uses a vast database of objects in the Universe. / AFP PHOTO / ESA/Hubble / N. Bartmann / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

First visit from outside solar system

FOR the first time in history, a strange object from outside our solar system has been recorded zooming past the sun.

An artist's impression from NASA of a comet on the edge of our solar system.

‘Alien’ object excites astronomers

IT’S more than extraterrestrial. It’s extrasolar. A strange object has been spotted – is it our first interstellar visitor?

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Tim Peake astronaut puzzle test

Can you solve this puzzle?

BRITISH astronaut Tim Peake claims this was one of the problems he had to solve on his astronaut selection test — but it’s really messing with people’s heads.

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Aliens may be living under frozen oceans

FORMER NASA scientist says we’ve failed to detect the presence of alien civilisations because they are probably living at the bottom of an extraterrestrial sea.

Not far from Australia, lies NASA's spacecraft cemetery.

The most remote place on Earth

KNOWN as the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, this remote stretch of the Pacific Ocean is home to the world’s “spacecraft cemetery”.

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Moon base . . Picture: ESA/Foster + Partners

Cave could be offworld colony

BEFORE we settle Mars, we must return to the caves. That’s the advice of astronomers who have found a cavern in the Moon capable of holding a city the size of several Sydneys.

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In this image taken from China's CCTV via APTN, a video image show the docking of the Shenzhou 8 craft that was launched Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011 with the already orbiting Tiangong 1 module in the early morning of Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. The two unmanned Chinese spacecraft docked successfully and were orbiting the Earth together Thursday in a step that moves China closer to manning its own space station in about a decade. (AP Photo/CCTV via APTN) CHINA OUT, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

China’s spacecraft will crash into Earth

CHINA has lost control of one its space labs and it’s about to come crashing down to Earth. Only no one knows where it’s going to hit.

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Twitter image of meteor shower seen in Sydney and Melbourne.Supplied

How to watch the Orionid meteor shower

ONE of the brightest and fastest meteor showers on the astronomical calendar is happening this weekend. Here is how to make sure you don’t miss a thing.

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This artist's rendering made available by Elon Musk on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017 shows SpaceX's new mega-rocket design on Mars. With the 350-foot-tall spacecraft, Musk announced that his private space company aims to launch two cargo missions to the red planet in 2022. (SpaceX via AP)

Huge problem with Musk’s plan

SPACE X founder Elon Musk wants to take you from Sydney to London in less than an hour. Only things might not be as simple as the billionaire suggests.

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Neutron star collision. Picture: Robin Dienel/Carnegie Institution for Science

Huge star collision key to universe

SCIENTISTS have for the first time witnessed the collision of two neutron stars, known to have generated at least half the gold in the Universe.

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An artist's impression of the two neutron stars colliding. Source: LSC Sonoma State University Aurore Simonnet

Adelaide uni in huge space research breakthrough

THIS pair of tiny stars collided in a spectacular death spiral 130 million years ago. And now, thanks to an international breakthrough involving an SA uni, we know just how and where it happened.

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NASA admits Planet Nine is real

NASA has finally admitted the existence of a “super-Earth”, which could fundamentally change the fate of the solar system.

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Earth in space with a flying asteroid, abstract background

House-sized asteroid heading our way

THE asteroid’s close approach will allow us to test the global asteroid pre-warning system. And while we’re tracking this one, there are millions we don’t know about.

Two black holes merge into one and produce gravitational waves. Picture: YouTube

What happens when black holes collide

IT’S been hailed as the breakthrough of the century. Gravitational waves — first theorised by Einstein — have been measured with the greatest precision yet.

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This artist's rendering made available by Elon Musk on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017 shows SpaceX's new mega-rocket design on Mars. With the 350-foot-tall spacecraft, Musk announced that his private space company aims to launch two cargo missions to the red planet in 2022. (SpaceX via AP)

LA to Sydney in half an hour

A BILLIONAIRE’S bold plan to colonise Mars could be applied to travel — revolutionising the way we get around the world.

Elon Musk's BFR space age rocket

‘Anywhere on Earth in under an hour’

SPACEX CEO Elon Musk has revealed plans to create a cheap way to travel to the Moon, Mars, or around the Earth, cutting most long-distance flights.

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Mars Base Camp is Lockheed Martin’s vision for sending humans to Mars in about a decade. From the orbiting outpost, scientist/astronauts can take excursions in an Orion to the two moons of Mars.

SA ‘is launch pad for space start-ups’

LAUNCH testing and space qualification missions are set to happen in South Australia, Space Industries Minister Martin Hamilton-Smith says.

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A satellite is seen at the International Astronautical Congress at the Convention Centre, Adelaide, Thursday, September 28, 2017. (AAP Image/Morgan Sette) NO ARCHIVING

New tech set to spy on Australian borders

SATELLITES with the ability to spy on asylum seeker boats or detect threats approaching by sea are being added to Australia’s border security arsenal.

Deep Space Gateway - a NASA computer-generated image showing their vision for a space station in orbit around the Moon to test and facilitate the technology needed to get to Mars.

We’re building a ‘stargate’

THE world agrees: we’re building a ‘stargate’. Space agencies are detailing a road map to Mars. And the 20-year trip includes a garage-stop at the Moon.

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Artist impression of the NovaSAR satellite, from which the CSIRO has leased time to collect data and images of Australia, inlcuding bushfires and floods.

New hi-tech eye to watch for SA bushfires

EMERGENCY services workers will be given access to satellite imagery within minutes for the first time this bushfire season, instead of having to wait for up to 12 hours.

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This artist's concept shows a celestial body about the size of our moon slamming at great speed into a body the size of Mercury. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope found evidence that a high-speed collision of this sort occurred a few thousand years ago around a young star, called HD 172555, still in the early stages of planet formation. The star is about 100 light-years from Earth.Spitzer detected the signatures of vaporized and melted rock, in addition to rubble, all flung out from the giant impact. Further evidence from the infrared telescope shows that these two bodies must have been traveling at a velocity relative to each other of at least 10 kilometers per second (about 22,400 miles per hour). As the bodies slammed into each other, a huge flash of light would have been emitted. Rocky surfaces were vaporized and melted, and hot matter was sprayed everywhere. Spitzer detected the vaporized rock in the form of silicon monoxide gas, and the melted rock as a glassy substance called obsidian. On Earth, silica can be found around volcanoes in black glassy rocks called obsidian, and around meteor craters in small rocks called tektites. Shock waves from the collision would have traveled through the planet, throwing rocky rubble into space. Spitzer also detected the signatures of this rubble.In the end, the larger planet is left skinned, stripped of its outer layers. The core of the smaller body and most of its surface were absorbed by the larger one. This merging of rocky bodies is how planets like Earth are thought to form. Astronomers say a similar type of event stripped Mercury of its crust early on in the formation of our solar system, flinging the removed material away from Mercury, out into space and into the sun. Our moon was also formed by this type of high-speed impact: a body the size of Mars is thought to have slammed into a young Earth about 30 to 100 million years after the sun formed. The sun is now 4.5 billion years old. According to this theory,

The end of the world is still coming

A CONSPIRACY theorist who initially predicted the world would end last weekend now says Doomsday is coming next month.

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FILE - This file image provided by NASA consists of data from six orbits by the Suomi-NPP spacecraft on April 9, 2015, that has been assembled into this perspective composite of southern Africa and the surrounding oceans. The image was created by the Ocean Biology Processing Group at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The space agency posted to its website on Sept. 20, 2017, to debunk numerous false reports that the world would end on Sept. 23. (NASA via AP, File)

This is what Australia will send into space

IN A bid to get ourselves into the space race, Australia is getting its own national space agency. This what’s going into the galaxy.

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This handout image provided by NASA, taken Sunday night, Jan. 22, 2012, shows a solar flare erupting on the Sun's northeastern hemisphere. Space weather officials say the strongest solar storm in more than six years is already bombarding Earth with radiation with more to come. The Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado observed a flare Sunday night at 11 p.m. EST. Physicist Doug Biesecker said the biggest concern from the speedy eruption is the radiation, which arrived on Earth an hour later. It will likely continue through Wednesday. It's mostly an issue for astronauts' health and satellite disruptions. It can cause communication problems for airplanes that go over the poles. (AP Photo/NASA)

The six major threats to humanity

THE world didn’t end like it was predicted to on the weekend, but this doesn’t mean we are in the clear. Here are the greatest threats to our species.

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Asteroid gold rush ‘within decade’

IT SOUNDS like a plot to take over the solar system and has authorities worried, but asteroid mining is about to change our pursuit for resources.

This shows the expected path of the NASA craft which will fly overhead aftermidnight.

Look up at the sky tonight

SHORTLY after midnight tonight an asteroid bound space craft will skim across the Australian sky in a Hollywood-style gravity assist manoeuvre.

Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2017- Aurorae: Kamil Nureev (Russia) with In Autumn Dance (Runner Up)

Winning photos out of this world

PHOTOGRAPHERS across the planet have captured brilliant images of galaxies far, far away as part of the 2017 Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

(FILES) This file NOAA/NASA image released on April 22, 2016 shows planet Earth. Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels have been nearly flat for three years in a row -- a

What we had wrong about Earth

IT TURNS out there’s a lot we don’t know about our planet — and a new understanding is said to have “far-reaching importance” for our future.

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The planet Nibiru is supposed to be crashing into Earth. So far it's happened in

The end is nigh. Look to the sky!

WILL you survive the Rapture? It’s about to happen this weekend: the Bible says it’s so. Or so says a group of true believers expecting the arrival of the alien planet Nibiru.

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Glowing blue earth at day time - Australia and New Zealand. Cover image for QLD 1degree feature

Will the world end on Saturday?

IN WHAT is sure to be bad news for NRL and AFL fans, conspiracy theorists say the world is meant to end in six days.

Rendering of the Cassini space probe's final plunge into Saturn. Picture: NASA

Cassini’s Saturn death plunge

NASA’s Cassini space probe has burned up in the skies over Saturn as planned, as the space agency published its final pictures.

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