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(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. On October 19, 2016, the Schiaparelli capsule, also known as the Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module (EDM), is scheduled to make the first landing on Mars by an ESA spacecraft. / AFP PHOTO / EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY / D. Ducros

Europe hours away from Mars landing

A CRUCIAL mission to sniff out life on Mars is due to touch down on the Red Planet tonight. And a lot is riding on the descent.

Life-seeking Mars lander en route

Life-seeking Mars lander en route

THE ExoMars lander has begun its approach to the surface of Mars where it will look for signs of life. But already the journey has been rough.

Universe ‘10 times’ bigger than thought

Universe ‘10 times’ bigger than thought

ASTRONOMERS have created a 3D model of the universe, and it looks nothing like what they expected.

Max Spiers - UFO conspiracy theorist is found dead. Picture: Facebook

UFO expert’s chilling final text

A UFO expert sent his mum a text telling her to “investigate” if something happened to him. Days later, he was found dead.

Consortium announces first ‘space nation’

Consortium announces first ‘space nation’

A GROUP of scientists and entrepreneurs has unveiled a plan to create the “first nation in space” which promises to change the global order.

Obama sets sights on Mars by 2030

Obama sets sights on Mars by 2030

PRESIDENT Barack Obama has renewed a push for the US to put humans on Mars by 2030 but said the government can’t do it alone.

US President Barack Obama speaks during a Coordinated Victory Fund Event in Chicago, Illinois, October 9, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON

Obama vows to send people to Mars

US President Barack Obama said the United States will partner with private industry to send people to Mars by the 2030s.

Artwork - artists impression of nuclear ion propelled spacecraft travelling to the planet Mars. spaceship space exploration ...

‘Preposterous but technically legitimate’

A DOCTOR from the UK claims he owns land on Mars, and it’s not as out of this world as you might think.

No one knows why this star is dimming

No one knows why this star is dimming

A STRANGE star in our galaxy has officially become even more mysterious, with astronomers struggling to explain why it keeps dimming.

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Why we could be headed for an Ice Age

Why we could be headed for an Ice Age

THE Sun has ‘gone blank’ for the fourth time this year, and it could herald the arrival of an Ice Age — it has been claimed.

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Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko seen 'end on', as imaged by the Rosetta craft on June 13. CREDIT: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM For Martin George space column for the Mercury

Dramatic end to expensive space mission

THE 12-year Rosetta spacecraft is the world’s most expensive space mission. But it will come to a dramatic end this month.

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk speaks at a press conference during the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico on September 27, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / HECTOR GUERRERO

Sabotage conspiracy in SpaceX failure

A CURIOUS incident involving a heated rival has introduced the idea of sabotage in a SpaceX investigation over an exploding rocket.

Rosetta Space Probe Enters Final Stage Of Comet Mission

Comet crash ‘mission complete’

THE Rosetta spacecraft has crashed into Comet 67P, ending a 12-year mission and providing unique close ups of the surface.

Artwork - artist impression of astronauts on the surface of the planet Mars.

Inside Elon Musk’s big Mars plan

THE temperatures are so extreme and the atmosphere so thin you can’t venture outside without a protective suit. Welcome to the Mars colony.

PIC FROM MERCURY PRESS/CATERS NEWS(PICTURED - WHAT IS BELIEVED TO BE A UFO WHICH WAS CATPURED BY HARRY PERTON)A nature blogger was stunned when he appeared to capture a UFO on camera. Harry Perton photographed the unusual object in Groningen, the Netherlands, after he ventured out in a storm to take pictures for his blog last week. But he was stunned when he checked his camera and spotted the jellyfish UFO - so called for its appearance - floating in the night sky emitting an eerie flash of green light. SEE MERCURY COPY

‘Aliens have been here forever’

THE idea of aliens having already visited Earth is “impossible” for many. That’s why these alleged abductees stick together.

23/01/2012 WIRE: This 23/01/2012 image provided by NASA, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), shows an M9-class solar flare erupting on the Sun's northeastern hemisphere at 03:49 UT, just 4 days after a previous strong CME that sparked aurora around the world on 22/01/2012. A very fast coronal mass ejection (CME) traveling four million miles per hour (6.4 million kilometers per hour), is headed towards the Earth. A rush of radiation in the form of solar protons already has begun bombarding the Earth and is likely to continue through 25/01/2012. The radiation storm is the largest of its kind since 2005 but still ranks only a three on the scale of one to five, enough to be considered 'strong' but not 'severe'. Pic. Afp

Flares could play havoc with your Tinder

EARTH is about to be bombarded by a solar storm which could cause mayhem — disrupting technology including mobile phones and satellite TV.

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The artist impression provided on the website of the European Space Agency ESA on Sept. 29, 2016 shows ESA's Rosetta cometary probe. The spacecraft will be crash landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Sept. 30, 2016. (J. Huart/ESA via AP)

Space probe set to crash onto comet

SCIENTISTS began saying their final farewells to the Rosetta space probe just hours before it crash lands on a comet.

Australia set to rejoin space race

Australia set to rejoin space race

AN Australian team could be set to revolutionise interplanetary travel after their new engine prototype got fast-tracked to be tested on the International Space Station.

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Suicide mission: ‘Are you prepared to die?’

Suicide mission: ‘Are you prepared to die?’

THE founder of SpaceX Elon Musk has finally unveiled his plan to establish a self-sustaining city on Mars — but it won’t be easy.

31/05/2005: Space Odyssey - Pegasus in orbit over Europa � the icy moon of Jupiter. A hundred km deep ocean of salt water is thought to underlie this thick ice layer.

Incredible discovery on Jupiter’s moon

ASTRONOMERS have made a startling observation on Jupiter’s moon Europa, one that could boost the chance of finding other life in our solar system.

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QLD rocked by ‘flash of light’ and ‘tremor’

QLD rocked by ‘flash of light’ and ‘tremor’

QUEENSLANDERS have been left scratching their heads after the night sky was split by a bright light, accompanied by a loud noise and tremors.

In this Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016 photo released by Xinhua News Agency, an aerial view shows the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in the remote Pingtang county in southwest China's Guizhou province. China has begun operating the world's largest radio telescope to help search for extraterrestrial life. (Liu Xu/Xinhua via AP)

China turns on massive ‘Eye of Heaven’

CHINA has been quietly building the world’s biggest radio telescope to search for alien life in space. Now it’s finally been turned on.

Satellite cyber warfare coming, warns report

Satellite cyber warfare coming, warns report

THE new frontier of cyber warfare will likely take place in outer space and will have massive consequences, a new report warns.

‘Find aliens before they find us’

‘Find aliens before they find us’

STEPHEN Hawking has warned that we must seek out intelligent life and is bringing together entrepreneurs to spend $130 million so we’re not wiped out first.

NASA image artist image projection showing a body of water under the icy surface of one of Jupiter's moons, called Europa.

NASA: ‘surprising activity’ on Europa

NASA has found ‘evidence of surprising activity’ on Jupiter’s moon Europa — a place the space agency believes is the best place to look for life.

This Google Earth image taken last year reveals the extent of the antenna systems at Pine gap. Picture: Nautilus

US secret ‘making us a target’

MOST of us know very little about this secret military facility in Central Australia. Instead of protecting us, it “makes us a target”.

29/09/2011 WIRE: China's Long March 2F rocket carrying the Tiangong-1 module, or

Earth-bound space station ‘out of control’

CHINA has lost control of its giant space station, raising fears it could cause devastation when it crashes on Earth.

In this March 10, 2015, photo provided by the University of Hawaii at Manoa HI-SEAS Human Factors Performance Study, mission commander Martha Lenio collects a soil sample outside of the dome in which six scientists lived an isolated existence to simulate life on a mission to Mars, on the bleak slopes of dormant volcano Mauna Loa near Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii. The scientists who took part of a human performance study funded by NASA, stepped outside the dome at 8,000 feet elevation to feel fresh air on their skin Saturday, June 13, 2015, the first time they'd ventured out without donning a space suit in eight months. (Neil Scheibelhut/University of Hawaii at Manoa via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

Inspirational thing about Mars colony

THE man overseeing NASA’s effort to put a human settlement on Mars spoke to news.com.au about what’s gone into the huge project.

China's Tiangong 2 space lab is launched on a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert, in China's Gansu province, on September 15, 2016. China launched its second space lab on September 15, as the Communist country works towards setting up its own space station. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO / AFP PHOTO / -

China launches second space station

CHINA has launched its second space station in a sign of the growing sophistication of its military-backed program that intends to send a mission to Mars.

Incredible map of a billion stars unveiled

Incredible map of a billion stars unveiled

THE most precise 3D map of the galaxy ever created has been unveiled, with the Gaia space probe plotting more than a billion stars in the Milky Way.

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