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We’ll have to live like Martians

A SCIENTIST has sent a chilling warning about the Earth’s future, and wants us to wake up about the grim reality awaiting us.

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

Christmas solar storm to batter Earth

EARTH is being blasted by a flare soaring from a hole in the sun’s atmosphere — and it’s bringing huge geomagnetic storms with it.

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This Aug. 26, 2003 image made available by NASA shows Mars photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope on the planet's closest approach to Earth in 60,000 years. Mars is set to get its latest visitor Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012, when NASA's new robotic rover, named Curiosity, attempts to land there. Mars has been a prime target for space exploration for decades, in part because its climate 3.5 billion years ago is believed to have been warm and wet, like early Earth. (AP Photo/NASA)

NASA reveals how ‘spiders’ grow on Mars

NASA scientists think they have found an explanation for how mysterious ‘spider’ features develop on the surface of Mars.

Could this lead to a Star Trek ship?

Could this lead to a Star Trek ship?

PHYSICISTS have taken a major step in unravelling the mystery of antimatter, which played a crucial role in powering the theoretical spaceships in Star Trek.

The Hubble Space Telescope's latest image of the star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) reveals dramatic changes in the illumination of surrounding dusty cloud structures. The effect, called a light echo, has been unveiling never-before-seen dust patterns ever since the star suddenly brightened for several weeks in early 2002.

The biggest space discoveries of the year

MYTHICAL planets, nearby Earth-like worlds and unprecedented missions to Jupiter and Saturn. We learned a lot about our universe in 2016.

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

Accidental sale of priceless Moon bag

A BAG used in the Moon landing and embedded with lunar dust was accidentally sold to a woman during a criminal case. And now she won’t give it back.

This artist rendering by NASA shows the Dawn spacecraft orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres. New findings presented at the American Geophysical Union meeting on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016 show that ice can exist in permanently shadowed craters on Ceres and is widespread below the surface. Dawn has been studying Ceres since 2015 after a stop at the asteroid Vesta. (NASA via AP)

Ice ‘lava’ coats Ceres craters

A NASA spacecraft has spotted eerie-blue ‘lava flows’ of ice in the darkest craters on the dwarf planet Ceres. But not as much as expected.

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An illustration of a large asteroid impacting Earth. An impact this large would result in the extinction of most all life on Earth. Earth texture maps courtesy of NASA - source http

NASA: we may have to nuke asteroids

NASA says ‘there’s not a lot we can do’ in the event of an apocalyptic asteroid. But they do have a couple ideas.

Question hounding Star Wars fans

Question hounding Star Wars fans

THE same question has been bothering Star Wars fans ever since the original film’s release decades ago. There may finally be an answer to it.

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Advertiser readers pics . Supermoon at Flagstaff Hill . Credit : Courtney Clark

Another supermoon will be here tonight

THE third and final supermoon of 2016 is going to make an appearance tonight. Here is everything you need to know.

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’Murdered’ star’s brilliant last gasp

’Murdered’ star’s brilliant last gasp

THERE’s a dark explanation behind the biggest supernova ever seen. Last year, ASASSN-15lh flared brighter than 20 Milky Ways. Turns out it was being eaten alive.

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13/04/2016. Solange Cunin with her colleague Sebastian Chaoui, co-founders of Quberider, a business that aims to reduce the cost of sending satellites to space. Photographed at the Quberider offices in Paddington, Sydney. Britta Campion / The Australian.

‘They’ll own a piece of rocket’

A ROCKET carrying experiments by Australians students has been sent to the International Space Station, thanks to two clever entrepreneurs.

FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2012, file photo, U.S. Sen. John Glenn talks with astronauts on the International Space Station via satellite before a discussion titled

‘Godspeed’ as pioneering astronaut dies

HISTORY-making astronaut John Glenn — the first American to orbit the earth — has died, aged 95, after a long battle with illness.

The sun and nine planets of our system orbiting. Clipping path included for the foreground objects.Opacity and bump textures for the earth and other planets map prepared via tracing images from www.nasa.gov.Earth texture:http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/2431/land_ocean_ice_cloud_2048.jpgSimilar images:

‘It will destroy all human life’

EARTH will be decimated in a nightmarish inferno as the sun balloons to 100 times its normal size, scientists predict.

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In this undated photo provided by NASA, Saturn's icy moon Mimas is dwarfed by the planet's enormous rings. Consider it a cosmic carousel with countless rings up for grabs. NASAâ€™s Saturn-orbiting spacecraft, Cassini, has begun an unprecedented mission to skim the planetâ€™s rings. On Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, Cassini got a gravitational assist from Saturnâ€™s big moon Titan. That put the spacecraft on course to graze Saturnâ€™s main outer rings. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute via AP)

Saturn pics 20 years in making

NASA’s Saturn-skimming spacecraft has beamed back incredible images of the giant gas planet as it enters the final months before a suicide mission.

Mars. Picture: Getty

Huge event may have wiped out Martians

SCIENTISTS believe Mars was covered in ice roughly 3.8 billion years ago but it was melted by climate change, wiping out potential life.

Russia’s cargo space ship crashes

Russia’s cargo space ship crashes

RUSSIA’S space agency said malfunction has caused an unmanned cargo ship to crash minutes after it blasted off.

NASA’s ‘unprecedented’ Saturn mission

CONSIDER Saturn’s amazing ring as a cosmic carousel with countless space rocks up for grabs — and NASA is on the way to get some.

SPACE SERIES: Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 17 mission commander, making a short checkout of the Lunar Roving Vehicle during the early part of the first Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA-1) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. This view of the 'stripped down' Rover is prior to loadup. This photograph was taken by Geologist-Astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, Lunar Module pilot. The mountain in the right background is the East end of South Massif. moon vehicle

Race to send rovers to Apollo 17 site

ROVING robots could soon be touring the Apollo 17 landing site on the Moon in a private space company’s bid to win a $27 million Google prize.

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

US would ‘lose’ an upcoming space race

SPACE has so far been a peaceful arena for nation states but that could change very soon, and the Americans wouldn’t be the victors.

D5RPN7 CHRISTOPHER LLOYD & MICHAEL J. FOX BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)

Parallel dimensions are key to time travel

Time travellers could use parallel dimensions to visit the past, scientists claim

Portrait Of Albert Einstein

Was Einstein wrong about this theory?

SCIENTISTS claim they can now test a theory that predicts a varying speed of light, an idea that goes against one of Einstein’s core theories.

NASA’s ‘important’ space poop challenge

NASA doesn’t quite know what to with astronaut’s poo in space, but they’ll give you a lot of money if you’ve got any good ideas.

ESA ExoMars 2016

The glitch that broke Europe’s heart

PEGGED as a shot at redemption for European space exploration, the failure of last month’s Mars lander at least holds an important silver lining.

‘They think I’m a little nuts’

‘They think I’m a little nuts’

SONIA Van Meter doesn’t just want to live on Mars. She wants to die there. And she has some blunt words for her critics.

New neighbour galaxy discovered

New neighbour galaxy discovered

ASTRONOMERS have detected a faint dwarf galaxy nearby which points to the existence of many more. And could help our understanding of dark matter.

Hawking: ‘Asteroids pose major threat’

Hawking: ‘Asteroids pose major threat’

PROFESSOR Stephen Hawking has issued a terrifying warning about the threat posed by apocalypse asteroids.

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New Planetarium show at Scienceworks Capturing the Cosmos

We’re about to see how fire acts in space

HOW does fire act in space? Researchers will soon find out, when they try to ignite nine different materials aboard an unmanned spaceship as it hurtles toward Earth.

Freshly-fallen meteorite older than Earth

Freshly-fallen meteorite older than Earth

SCIENTISTS have recovered a freshly fallen meteorite believed to be 4.56 billion years old from a farm north east of Perth, making it older than the Earth.

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This photo provided by United Launch Alliance shows a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying GOES-R spacecraft for NASA and NOAA lifting off from Space Launch Complex-41 at 6:42 p.m. EST at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. The most advanced weather satellite ever built rocketed into space Saturday night, part of an $11 billion effort to revolutionize forecasting and save lives. (United Launch Alliance via AP)

NASA’s ‘unprecedented’ weather satellite

THE US has launched the best weather satellite ever built in a bid to ‘revolutionise forecasting weather and save lives’.

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