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26/12/2006 NEWS: This is the first image of the sun from a new Japanese satellite called

Sun’s rays could cause power grid collapse

SCIENTISTS suspect the sun is on the verge of a “deep solar minimum”. It’s about to shower us with rays so intense that part of our atmosphere will collapse.

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(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

NASA plans to crash satellite into asteroid

IF you’ve ever worried that an asteroid is going to hit the Earth and wipe out the world as you know it, your worries could soon be over.

Ministry of Defence files show UFO reported sightings. Picture: PA/National Archives

UFO database blocked from release

A SECRET database filled with UFO incidents reported by airline crews has been kept away from prying eyes thanks to the government.

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Marvels of Mars - image of planet Mars taken from Nasa's HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter probe. Planet mars.

NASA forced to respond to outrageous conspiracy

IT MIGHT sound like a joke, but NASA has been forced to respond to a Trump-endorsed media outlet’s claims about kidnapped children and Mars.

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Andrea Boyd is the International Space Station operations engineer and the ISS's voice of Europe.

‘It’s like the Olympics of space’

WHEN astronauts on the International Space Station beam down to Earth for a chat with Mission Control, there’s a good chance they’ll hear an Aussie accent.

A fireball captured by the Desert Fireball Network at 11.56pm on Friday night, which they say is possibly the brightest they've photographed. Picture: Desert Fireball Network

Fast moving light leaves trail across sky

UPDATED: SOUTH Australians have reported seeing a strange bright light across the sky in Friday night. But what was it? And did you see it?

NASA has snapped the Niagra Falls of Mars.

NASA snaps ‘Niagara Falls of Mars’

NASA has released an image from one of its Mars rovers which shows a part of the red planet where ancient lava behaved once like liquid water.

Undated : Artists impression of asteroid over Brisbane

Risk of asteroid strike ‘very high’

EARTH will be hit by asteroid “sooner or later” and it could well ring in the end of humanity, says the boss of the European Space Operations Centre .

Image of a strange, metallic looking object from the Mars Opportunity rover. Picture: NASA

Is this the UFO you’ve been waiting for?

IT’s shiny. It’s sharp. It’s on Mars. It must be aliens! What appears to be a chunk of metal photographed by the Opportunity Rover has UFO buffs in a spin.

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NGN Picture Library stock image scan. A copy of the USAF (United States Air Force) report on the sighting of a UFO near bases at RAF Woodbridge RAF Bentwaters in Suffolk. Rendlesham Forest incident. The event happened on 26.12.2005 but was not publicised until 1983.Alien encounter. Unidentified Flying Object.

Government releases secret UFO dossier

AN OFFICIAL government UFO dossier of 15 files has been released by the Ministry of Defence and gives details of mysterious incidents in British skies.

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This image provided by NASA shows an image captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory of a blast of plasma streaming from the sun in August 2012. Scientists say a solar eruption was detected on March 5, 2013 and was headed toward Mars. NASA's Curiosity rover will postpone some activities but other Mars missions will operate normally.(AP Photo/NASA)

The sun is doing some worrying ‘sneezing’

MASSIVE eruptions from the sun could cause long-term power cuts, destruction of electronic devices and increased cancer risk for aeroplane passengers.

This artist rendering provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows some of the 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and in the habitable zone of their star identified by NASAâ€™s Kepler space telescope. NASA says its planet-hunting telescope has found 10 new planets outside our solar system that are likely the right size and temperature to potentially have life on them. As the Kepler telescope finished its main mission, NASA announced Monday that it has seen a total of 49 planets in the â€œGoldilocks Zoneâ€ for possible life. And they only looked in a tiny part of the galaxy. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

NASA ‘to reveal it has found alien life’

NASA is “on the verge” of announcing the discovery of alien life, according to a new video by hacking group Anonymous.

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This NASA handout visualization animation still image released June 21, 2017 shows the Earth, moon, and sun at 17:05:40 UTC during the eclipse. In the animation from which this still was taken, the Earth, moon, sun, and shadow cones are viewed through a telescopic lens on a virtual camera located far behind the Earth. Long focal lengths like the one used here appear to compress the distance between near and far objects. Despite appearances, the geometry of the scene is correct. The moon's umbra cone is roughly 30 Earth diameters long, barely enough to reach the Earth, while the sun is almost 400 times farther away.On August 21, 2017, the Earth will cross the shadow of the moon, creating a total solar eclipse. Eclipses happen about every six months, but this one is special. For the first time in almost 40 years, the path of the moon's shadow passes through the continental United States. / AFP PHOTO / NASA / Handout / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Rare space event returns after a century

FOR the first time in almost a century residents are preparing for a coast-to-coast solar eclipse. Never before will a celestial event be viewed by so many.

'Star Chip' is a proposed nano-space probe weighing just a few grams that could use a light sail powered by Earth-based lasers to propel it towards Alpha Centauri. Picture: Breakthrough Starshot

Probe could explore star in 20 years

RENOWNED physicist Stephen Hawking wants us to send a starship to Alpha Centauri. And he says he knows how to get it there in just 20 years.

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NASA Kepler mission

NASA discovers 10 Earth-like worlds

THE search for alien life in the universe has been boosted after the Kepler space telescope identified 10 habitable planets.

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From the ground, researchers measured laser signals that originated from a satellite. The successful characterisation of quantum features under such conditions is a precondition for a global quantum communication network using satellites that would link metropolitan area quantum networks on the ground. Picture: Google, ESA.

China’s big ‘new internet’ breakthrough

CHINA has scored a victory against hackers and spooks as it surges ahead of other world powers in a new kind of space race.

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‘I have proof Roswell happened’

A PARANORMAL radio show host insists she has seen a top secret report on Roswell, which proves the alleged incident did occur.

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Can we have babies outside the Earth's atmosphere?

The issue with sex in space

SOMEONE needs to sit down and have a long, hard think about how a condom would work in zero gravity apparently.

Sun’s twin may have killed dinosaurs

THE Sun had an evil twin called Nemesis, that put a massive rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth.

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KFC think its sending a chicken burger into space.

KFC’s space mission to launch next week

KFC is set to launch a zinger burger into space in a bizarre promotional stunt. But there’s just one problem with the mission.

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Fresh row over 72-second space mystery

A 72 second-long astronomical anomaly recorded in 1977 has been puzzling star gazers attempting to discover its source.

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Nuclear bomb or asteroid impact creates a nuke mushroom

NASA’s chilling asteroid warning

AN unexplained increase in comet activity around us has sparked concern, with the discovery of new “potentially hazardous” asteroids.

Einstein_1921_by_F_Schmutzer_-_restoration for Martin George Space col for the Mercury.

Einstein’s theory proved right. Again

A STAR measuring theory put forward by the physicist has been successfully tested, opening a new window to understanding the history and evolution of galaxies.

Martian bedrock and sand dunes look very much like Earth. NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

NASA discovers Mars looks like Earth

WE KNOW by now that Mars used to be a planet similar to Earth, but new pictures and video from NASA show its much closer than we imagined.

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FEE APPLIES...ONE TIME USE... AUS50TH 1969: HI RES..30Th Anniversary Of Apollo 11 Landing On The Moon (9 Of 20): Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., Lunar Module Pilot, Is Photographed Walking Near The Lunar Module During The Apollo 11 Extravehicular Activity. Man's First Landing On The Moon Occurred Today At 4:17 P.M. July 20, 1969 As Lunar Module

We’re going back to the moon

CHINA is preparing to put a man on the moon but the US Defence Department has raised questions over the true intentions of the mission.

Asgardia is an unbelievably ambitious project, but for now it seems to be going ahead.

Aspiring space nation to take first step

THE space nation of Asgardia is an unbelievably ambitious project, but for now it seems to be going ahead.

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter discovered the hole on the Martian surface

NASA scientists baffled by Mars hole

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently captured a vast pit on Mars and scientists have no idea what caused it.

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Mutant bacteria threat from space

Mutant bacteria threat from space

FORGET Predators and Aliens. Even Tribbles are no trouble. One real challenge our spacefarers are already facing is mutant, fast-breeding bacteria.

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LIGO's gravitational wave detections. Source: LIGO ScientificCollaboration/OzGrav Arc Centre of Excellence

Holes in space send ripples to Earth

SCIENTISTS are excited about a whole lot of something, with the detection of gravitational waves from two black holes colliding in space.

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These people still believe the Earth is flat

THERE is a growing movement who think everything you know about the world is wrong and is the result of a global conspiracy involving NASA.

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