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This picture provided by the US Air Force shows personnel inspecting the X-37B, the Air Force's first unmanned re-entry spacecraft, after landing on December 3, 2010 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The X-37B, named Orbital Test Vehicle 1 (OTV-1), conducted on-orbit experiments for more than 220 days during its maiden voyage, and fired its orbital maneuver engine in low-earth orbit to perform an autonomous reentry before landing, according to the Air Force. AFP PHOTO/US AIR FORCE/HO ++RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE � NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS++

Pentagon’s mysterious X-37B space plane

AS THE US remains tight-lipped about the X-37B, Russia and China have been scrambling to come up with their own answer to America’s secretive space mission.

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This enhanced-color image of a mysterious dark spot on Jupiter seems to reveal a Jovian “galaxy” of swirling storms. Juno acquired this JunoCam image on Feb. 2, 2017, at 5:13 a.m. PDT (8:13 a.m. EDT), at an altitude of 9,000 miles (14,500 kilometers) above the giant planet’s cloud tops. This publicly selected target was simply titled “Dark Spot.” In ground-based images it was difficult to tell that it is a dark storm. Citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko enhanced the color to bring out the rich detail in the storm and surrounding clouds. Just south of the dark storm is a bright, oval-shaped storm with high, bright, white clouds, reminiscent of a swirling galaxy. As a final touch, he rotated the image 90 degrees, turning the picture into a work of art. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Roman Tkachenko

Probe takes deep dive on Jupiter

FORGET Cyclone Debbie. NASA’s Juno probe just buzzed Jupiter, peering deep into the mysterious mayhem that is the gas giant’s perfect summer day.

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‘Why I know aliens haven’t visited’

‘Why I know aliens haven’t visited’

THE fourth person to walk on the moon doesn’t doubt for a second that we are not alone. He has a theory about why aliens haven’t yet visited Earth.

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It didn't take long for one Twitter user to make the obvious joke.

Donald Trump wants to go to Mars

IN A rare bout of consensus, Donald Trump has pledged money for a NASA mission to Mars. But he’s got some interesting ideas.

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

Sun could make your internet drop out

IF YOU find that your radio or TV broadcast is briefly dropping out or if your internet becomes sketchy over the next fortnight, you can blame the sun.

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NASA's proposed Europa Lander, a robot probe intended to seek signs of life under the moon's ice.

Major blow for NASA’s ‘headline mission’

ONE of NASA’s most important missions in the search for alien life has been stopped, as Donald Trump orders huge cuts to the space program.

NASA's proposed Europa Lander, a robot probe intended to seek signs of life under the moon's ice.

Sorry neighbour: Europa visit cut

NASA’s hopes of landing a robot on the icy moon of Europa in the search for life have been dashed under proposed new cuts to the space program.

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Megan Heazlewood investigates crop circles

Hidden signs in crop circles

A SCIENTIST who has dedicated his life to researching UFO crop circles says there are “puzzles” in them containing secret messages.

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Animated gif of Saturn's moon Pan

Up close with Saturn’s weird moon

THAT’S not a moon, that’s a … ravioli! Saturn’s strangest satellite, Pan, has been photographed for the first time. And it’s like nothing we’ve seen before.

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Sci-fi space background - two planets in space, glowing mysterious nebula in universe. Elements of this image furnished by NASA nasa.gov

Astronomers’ sensational alien travel theory

FAST radio bursts are one of astronomy’s most mysterious phenomena. Harvard scientists think they could be caused by intergalactic alien travel.

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An artists's concept of what a deployed solar sail space probe may look like

Mysterious signals may be alien probes

STRANGE radio bursts are flashing across our skies. We don’t know where they’re from, but scientists say they could be the ‘exhaust’ plumes of alien space probes.

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Succeed or die: Aussie’s epic mission

IT’S the ultimate one-way ticket, and Melbourne woman Dianne McGrath is prepared to do whatever it takes to win a spot.

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Aussie’s epic Mars attempt

IT’S the ultimate one-way ticket, and Melbourne woman Dianne McGrath is prepared to do whatever it takes to win a spot.

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Artist's concept of an atom chip for use by NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) aboard the International Space Station. Picture: NASA

‘The coldest spot in the universe’

NASA will be performing a world first and replicating temperatures more than 100 million times colder than the depths of space to better understand the universe.

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An artist's impression of the view from one of the planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1. The silhouette of another planet, transiting across the face of the star, is depicted. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser/spaceengine.org For Martin George space column for Hobart Mercury

NASA’s Hubble hunts for alien life

EFFORTS to find alien life on TRAPPIST-1’s planets are already underway, with the Hubble Space Telescope trying to spot traces of their existence.

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The slow-moving fireball over Hobart on Tuesday. Picture: Lee-Anne Peters.

Alien theorists abuzz over fireball

A FIREBALL over the skies of Hobart has sent conspiracy theorists into overdrive, despite a perfectly good explanation.

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An artist's impression of powerful solar storms thought to have bombarded the early Earth. Picture: Nature Geoscience.

NASA’s dangerous mission to protect Earth

NASA is sending a spacecraft within four million miles of the sun’s surface, where it will face heat and radiation like no other craft has endured before.

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This handout artist’s impression released by the European Southern Observatory on February 22, 2017 shows the view just above the surface of one of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. The stunning discovery of seven Earth-like planets orbiting a small star in our galaxy opens up the most promising hunting ground to date for life beyond the Solar System, researchers said Wednesday. All seven are within 20 percent of the size and mass of our own planet and almost certainly rocky, and three are ideally situated to harbour life-nurturing oceans of water, they reported in the journal Nature. / AFP PHOTO / European Southern Observatory / M. Kornmesser / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Why we still haven’t found aliens

NASA’s latest breakthrough discovery boosts the theory that alien life is out there somewhere. This is why we still haven’t found it.

Sorry, but there’s no life ‘next door’

Sorry, but there’s no life ‘next door’

THE closest habitable planet to our Solar System may not be so habitable after all, according to NASA scientists.

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Graphic showing a 'tidal locked' planet.

It’s life, but not as we know it

THE new potentially habitable worlds NASA discovered differ from ours in a few important ways. This is why they could still have life.

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This image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows an artist's conception of what the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f may look like, based on available data about its diameter, mass and distances from the host star. The planets circle tightly around a dim dwarf star called Trappist-1, barely the size of Jupiter. Three are in the so-called habitable zone, where liquid water and, possibly life, might exist. The others are right on the doorstep. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

‘Second Earth matter of when, not if’

NASA has discovered seven Earth-like worlds orbiting a single star 39 light-years away. And six of them could hold life.

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NASA finds seven more ‘Earths’

NASA finds seven more ‘Earths’

SEVEN new Earth-sized worlds have been found orbiting a star 40 light years away. Most of them could support life.

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NASA post sparks wild alien theories

A MYSTERIOUS announcement by NASA has prompted speculation the space agency has discovered proof of alien life in the universe.

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

NASA to make exoplanet announcement

NASA has been stingy with the details so far but the press conference is being touted as the biggest news related to exoplanets since Proxima Centauri.

Conspiracy theorists have claimed strange footage allegedly taken from Nasa’s live feed from the International Space Station appears to show six large “UFOs” floating past

Strange footage sparks UFO theories

NASA live feed mysteriously cuts as “six large UFOs” creep past International Space Station, prompting some lofty internet conspiracy theories.

The SpaceX Falcon rocket launches from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017, carrying a load of supplies for the International Space Station. (Craig Bailey/Florida Today via AP)

SpaceX takes off in historic launch

SPACEX has successfully launched the first private rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida after a rocky start.

Churchill had long theorised about habitable planets hosting alien life.

Alien search interrupted by World War II

AS THE Brits entered World War II, Winston Churchill had something else important on his mind: the existence of aliens.

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This 2006 colorized scanning electron micrograph image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the O157:H7 strain of the E. coli bacteria. New research suggests that a worrying number of people in China are infected with bacteria resistant to an antibiotic used as a last resort. Researchers examined more than 17,000 samples from patients with infections of common bacteria found in the gut, in two hospitals in Chinaâ€™s Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces, over eight years. About 1 percent of those samples were resistant to colistin, often considered the last option in antibiotics. The study was published Friday, Jan. 27, 2017 in the journal, Lancet. (Janice Carr/CDC via AP)

We’re sending superbugs into space

YOU’VE heard of snakes on a plane, well this is super bacteria in space. What could possibly go wrong?

‘Extremely unique’ supernova explosion

‘Extremely unique’ supernova explosion

SUPERNOVA are rarely spotted before they are already several days old and most of the debris has dispersed. But not this time.

Carmel Johnston former Commander of the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation Mars Mission where she and five other people lived in complete isolation for an entire year replicating life on Mars. Carmel will appear at WOMAD in 2017 to talk about her experience

Awkward thing about life on ‘Mars’

SIX scientists crammed into a tiny dome for 12 months to replicate living on Mars. What could possibly go wrong? One reveals the ‘stinkiest’ issue.

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