‘The search is over!’ Lost spacecraft found
SCIENTISTS thought it was lost forever, but a miraculous sighting has recovered a spacecraft tucked into the crack of a comet hurtling through space.
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‘Unlike anything in solar system’
NASA released a batch of close-up pictures taken by the Juno spacecraft last week when it flew incredibly close to Jupiter.
Conspiracy in ‘British Roswell’ UFO case
IN 1980, police officers reported seeing a strange flying object and flashing lights. Now there are calls for Britain’s ‘Roswell’ case to be reopened.
Dramatic explosion at SpaceX launch pad
DRAMATIC footage of the SpaceX rocket explosion in Florida has surfaced, showing the destruction of Facebook’s $US200 million satellite.
No, that ain’t an alien signal
A RUSSIAN radio telescope sparked a frenzy earlier this week, with reports it had received a ‘signal’ from outer space. But alien hunters SETI now say it’s a case of mistaken identity.
The Fermi paradox strikes again
DESPITE excited speculation, it turns out the unusual radio signal detected from an interesting star system wasn’t what it was cracked up to be.
Young galaxies ‘brighter’ than we thought
MEASURING the pulse of 70,000 galaxies has revealed many were alive and kicking — and even dancing — as little as three billion years after the Big Bang.
Do secret space signals point to alien life?
RADIO signals detected from deep space and kept secret by Russia are now being investigated by international scientists.
An asteroid just came really close
AN asteroid missed the Earth by less than a quarter of the distance to the moon on Sunday just hours after astronomers discovered it.
Scientists freed from ‘Martian’ dome
SCIENTISTS who lived inside a dome in Hawaii for an entire year say the experience shows a human mission to Mars could succeed.
Probe to dive into Jupiter’s atmosphere
IN WHAT is largely a voyage into the unknown, the Juno spacecraft will get as close as we’ve ever gone to Jupiter Sunday night.
China has its sights set of Mars
CHINA has unveiled a spacecraft it plans to send to Mars in a mission the country says faces unprecedented challenges.
‘Second Earth’ discovered in deep space
ASTRONOMERS have discovered a planet orbiting our closest star just four light years away — and it has the potential for alien life.
China has its sights set of Mars
CHINA has unveiled a spacecraft it plans to send to Mars in a mission the country says faces unprecedented challenges.
Mars simulation coming to an end
SIX scientists are close to wrapping up a year of near isolation in a Mars simulation on a Hawaii mountain.
Asteroid didn’t kill dinosaurs
IT’S A widely accepted theory that an asteroid caused the extinction of dinosaurs. But, now it appears this isn’t the case.
Space station gets new parking
WATCH as two astronauts embark on a special space walk to install a new parking spot for private space taxis at the International Space Station.
Mars as you’ve never seen it before
STUNNING new pictures have been released by NASA showing huge colourful formations on the so-called Red Planet.
Tiny robots to map the universe
A NEW project will aim to use an army of tiny robots to map and study the expansion history of the universe.
Black hole test a ‘triumph’ for Hawking
STEPHEN Hawking may have got one of science’s biggest mysteries right. It turns out black holes may not be so black after all.
China takes quantum leap in space race
ON TUESDAY morning China carried out what could prove to be a defining moment in the country’s global ascendancy.
‘We could reach it in our lifetime’
ASTRONOMERS have discovered what they believe to be the closest habitable planet to Earth and claim we could explore it within the next two decades.
Object in weird orbit beyond Neptune
ASTRONOMERS are confused by the recent discovery of a mystery object orbiting around the sun in an opposite direction to the rest of the planets.
Venus was once habitable: NASA
IN RESEARCH that impacts our search for alien life, NASA believes Venus once looked a lot like Earth.
Scans reveal grand canyons of Titan
SATURN’s frigid moon Titan just got more alien. It’s not just a giant iceblock. New photos reveal it’s covered with grand canyons, filled with a glistening liquid.
The centre of our galaxy has large void
USING a telescope in South Africa, astronomers discovered the centre of the Milky Way has an enormous void that surprisingly lacks young stars
‘Alien megastructure’ star gets weirder
A MYSTERIOUSLY pulsing star within our galaxy keeps exhibiting strange behaviour that can’t be explained by any known phenomena.
The galaxy’s Top 20 places to live
A LIST of ‘most Earth-like’ planets has been singled out for further study. Is one of them where we’ll find extraterrestrial life?
North Korea plans moon landing
NORTH Korea has revealed it is building a space program which it believes will see it walk on the moon within a decade.
Space tour license close to blast off
COMMERCIAL space tourism just got one step closer with the US federal aviation body granting Virgin Galactic its space license.
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