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A Long March 7 orbital launch vehicle carrying China's cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1 lifts off from its launch pad at the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in Wenchang, southern China's Hainan Province, on April 20, 2017. A Chinese rocket successfully sent the country's first cargo spacecraft, Tianzhou-1, into space from the southern island province of Hainan on April 20. / AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR

China launches first cargo spacecraft

CHINA has launched its first unmanned supply ship to dock with its space station, a crucial step in its ambitious space program.

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Gif no. for NASA 'The Rock' asteroid.

Earth’s close shave with giant asteroid

YOU probably slept through it, but we were all nearly pulverised by a huge asteroid nicknamed ‘The Rock’ that hurtled perilously close to Earth last night.

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A handout artist impression released by the European Southern Observatory on April 19, 2017 shows a planet located in the liquid water habitable zone surrounding its host star, a small, faint red star named LHS 1140 and depicted in blue is the atmosphere the planet may have retained. Astronomers on April 19 announced the discovery of a

New ‘Super-Earth’ boosts search for ET

ASTRONOMERS announced the exciting discovery of a “super-Earth” overnight. It’s just 40 light years away and could host alien life.

Astronaut's map sparks Carribean treasure hunt.

NASA astronaut’s treasure map

DURING a solo space mission in 1963, NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper made a discovery that he kept secret for 40 years.

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

What Trump wants to do with the moon

DONALD Trump’s team seems very interested in the moon and all the money it thinks it can make from it.

Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus captured by NASA's Cassini 05/10/2008.

200bn reasons we’re not alone

NASA has made a major announcement about conditions for life existing on one of Saturn’s 62 moons. That, it turns out, is just the beginning.

Saturn NASA announcement. Picture: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Our best hope for finding alien life

THE search for alien life has narrowed to one of Saturn’s moons, where scientists believe microbes could have formed in much the same way as they developed on Earth.

Saturn NASA announcement. Picture: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Our best hope for finding alien life

THE search for alien life has narrowed to one of Saturn’s moons, where scientists believe microbes could have formed in much the same way as they developed on Earth.

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(FILES) This file of a handout photo received on February 27, 2017 from Sheffield University shows an artists rendering of the tidal disruption event in F01004-2237, which is 1.7 billion light years from Earth. The release of gravitational energy as the debris of the star is accreted by the black hole leads to a flare in the optical light of the galaxy. From Europe to the South Pole, via Chile and Hawaii, eight telescopes have been simultaneously pointed at the center of our galaxy since April 7, 2017 to try and capture an image of a black hole, as part of a project called Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). / AFP PHOTO / SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY / MARK A. GARLICK / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

First pics captured of black hole

ASTRONOMERS believe they’ve captured first images of the gravity and light-sucking monster that weighs as much as four million suns.

Europe at night. PIcture: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens.

NASA’s ‘night lights’ breakthrough

NASA has released incredible new maps showing full hemisphere views of Earth at night that will soon have real-time applications for weather and war.

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Dale Demi freaking out about meteor

‘Did you guys see that?’

THIS woman was live broadcasting on the internet when a mysterious bright light streaked across the sky, exploding behind her.

Stellar explosions are most often associated with supernovae, the spectacular deaths of stars. But new ALMA observations of the Orion Nebula complex provide insights into explosions at the other end of the stellar life cycle, star birth. Astronomers captured these dramatic images of the remains of a 500-year-old explosion as they explored the firework-like debris from the birth of a group of massive stars, demonstrating that star formation can be a violent and explosive process too. Picture: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Bally/H. Drass et al

Incredible images of massive star collision

STARGAZERS have captured incredible images of a gigantic inferno which obliterated two stars in a distant galaxy.

Amazon founder’s $1.3 billion bet

THE second richest man in the world is gambling a phenomenal amount of money in an attempt to turn space into a playground for the rich.

It's one small step for man, one giant opportunity for miners. With some of the Earth's most valuable resources dwindling, space mining is looming large as the next frontier for prospectors. Asteroids promise a rich source of precious metals such as gold and platinum and diamonds while the Moon has plentiful reserves of ''rare earth minerals'' used in smartphones, tablets, flat-screen TVs, pharmaceuticals, wind turbines and a range of other technological and military applications.

Asteroid mining could earn banks billions

A WALL St bank has claimed mining asteroids for precious metals is a “realistic” goal with some so valuable they could crash the global economy.

ABC's Stargazing Live announces the discovery of a new solar system

Aussie TV viewers’ space discoveries

ARMCHAIR astronomers around the country are responsible for discovering a previously unknown solar system and 90 other new planets, as part of a remarkable TV show.

This artist's impression shows the planet orbiting the Sun-like star HD 85512 in the southern constellation of Vela (The Sail). This planet is one of sixteen super-Earths discovered by the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory. This planet is about 3.6 times as massive as the Earth and lies at the edge of the habitable zone around the star, where liquid water, and perhaps even life, could potentially exist.

Earth-like planet could be ‘water world’

AN Earth-like planet with a hazy atmosphere that could support water has been discovered for the first time.

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MUST CREDIT: Terry Virts. Astronaut, Terry Virts photographs taken from space of earth. The Milky way.

Get paid $22,000 for doing nothing

WOULD you like to be paid to lie on your back for 60 days? Scientists are looking for willing people — and their chequebooks are open.

sketch of cassini orbiter probe 1 running rings around Saturn space spacecraft

NASA’s suicide mission into Saturn

NASA’S Cassini spacecraft is preparing for its final plunge into the depths of Saturn in a bid to reveal untold secrets of the planet.

CSIRO’s Compact Array telescope, near Narrabri in northern NSW, picked up the fast radio burst's afterglow. Picture: Alex Cherney.

Radio signals are ‘extraterrestrial’

AUSTRALIAN scientists have discovered that one of the universe’s most mysterious signals is not coming from Earth but is alien in origin.

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Aliens likely to be ‘electronic entities’

LORD Martin Rees, the British Astronomer Royal, says extraterrestrials are probably machines and not living organisms.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Kennedy Space Center, over Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral skyline in Florida on Thursday, March 16, 2017. The rocket, carrying the Echostar XXIII communications satellite was delayed from Tuesday due to high winds. (Malcolm Denemark/Florida Today via AP)

‘This has never been done before’

A “HUGE revolution in spaceflight” has quietly taken place. It’s being called a “Wright brothers moment”, and for good reason. Here’s what it means.

01/11/2006 WIRE: NASA pic released 31/10/06 shows a superdense neutron star left behind by the stars' death over a thousand years ago, now seen spewing out a blizzard of extremely high-energy particles into the expanding debris field known as the Crab Nebula. This composite image shows The Chandra X-ray image in light blue, the Hubble Space Telescope optical images in green and dark blue, and the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared image in red. - space astronomy

Are we totally wrong on dark energy?

NEW research claims dark energy might be an illusion, meaning one of the biggest mysteries in physics could be explained by an Einstein theory.

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Aussies hunt for elusive Planet 9

Aussies hunt for elusive Planet 9

RESEARCHERS at ANU are leading the charge to discover an elusive hidden planet, thought to be lurking at the edge of our solar system.

Psychic medium and telepathic communicator Kerrie-Anne Thornton

‘Aliens use my body’

PSYCHIC medium Kerrie-Anne Thornton claims she can talk to aliens. They have supposedly told her all kinds of secrets – including Donald Trump’s plan.

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Quasar 3C 186 is the heart of galaxy that has been ripped out and thrown into deep space.

Galactic clash leaves no victors

THIS monster has been booted out of its home. So what does it take to get a supermassive black hole to run at 8 million km/h? Something even scarier?

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Quasar 3C 186 is the heart of galaxy that has been ripped out and thrown into deep space.

What caused titanic black hole to flee?

THIS monstrous black hole is on the run at an incredibly fast pace: eight million km/h. What could possibly do that to the universe’s top predator?

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Inside Amazon’s tourist spaceship

THE world’s second richest man, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, shows off the New Shepard flash capsule that will take the rich and famous into orbit.

(FILES) This file photo handout photo taken from the European Space Agency website on March 1, 2016 shows an artist's impression depicting the separation of the ExoMars 2016 entry, descent and landing demonstrator module, named Schiaparelli, from the Trace Gas Orbiter, and heading for Mars. Europe's Schiaparelli Mars lander is set to separate from its mothership on October 16, 2016 for a three-day, one million-kilometre (621,000-mile) descent to the Red Planet's surface to test landing gear for a future rover. / AFP PHOTO / EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY / D. Ducros / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Major step in Mars mission

THE ExoMars mobile rover, tasked with recovering evidence of life on the Red Planet, will touch down in 2021 at one of two sites.

The photo that changed a persepctive.

‘I worry that we’re just doomed’

FAMOUS astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson reveals what he thinks will undo human civilisation and how we can save ourselves.

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Astronaut Edward H. White II, pilot on the Gemini-Titan 4 spaceflight, is shown during his egress from the spacecraft. His face is covered by a shaded visor to protect him from the unfiltered rays of the sun. White became the first American astronaut to walk in space. He remained outside the spacecraft for 21 minutes during the third revolution of the Gemini-4 mission. He wears a specially designed spacesuit for the extravehicular activity (EVA). In his right hand, he carries a Hand-Held Self-Maneuvering Unit (HHSMU) with which he controlled his movements while in space.

These NASA photos are mesmerising

IF YOU’RE a lover of space and all things of cosmic beauty, then NASA has created the perfect tool which lets you download its most spectacular images and videos.

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