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Elon Musk’s blunt admission

Elon Musk’s blunt admission

THE CEO of SpaceX has called last week’s rocket explosion the ‘most difficult and complex’ problem in the company’s history.

08/11/2011 NEWS: Generic asteroid artwork. Pic. Thinkstock

Giant asteroid hurtles towards Earth

A MASSIVE two kilometre-wide asteroid has made a dramatic ‘near Earth pass’, coming within 15 million kilometres – a virtual whisker in space terms.

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‘The ultimate is to find new life’

‘The ultimate is to find new life’

A 300KG rover could pull off “one of the most important discoveries ever made” and find Martian life on Mars.

We found another ‘Dyson sphere’

We found another ‘Dyson sphere’

AS IF the the first discovery wasn’t confusing enough, we now appear to have two stars that are masked by “alien megastructures”.

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The photo released by European Space Agency ESA on Monday, Sept. 5, 2016 shows a photo of the comet lander Philae on photo taken by Rosetta's OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on Sept. 2, 2016 from a distance of 2.7 km of the Comet 67P/Churyumovâ€“Gerasimenko. Philae was last seen when it first touched down at Agilkia, bounced and then flew for another two hours before ending up at a location later named Abydos, on the cometâ€™s smaller lobe. (ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS via AP)

‘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.

Jupiter, Juno

‘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.

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Conspiracy in ‘British Roswell’ UFO case

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.

Supplied Editorial SpaceX explosion. Picture: USLaunchReport

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

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.

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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

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.

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Do secret space signals point to alien life?

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 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.

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Scientists freed from ‘Martian’ dome

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.

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Probe to dive into Jupiter’s atmosphere

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.

This artist's rendering provided to China's Xinhua News Agency on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016 by the lunar probe and space project center of Chinese State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, shows a concept design for a Mars rover and lander. According to Chinese state media, China plans to launch an orbiter that will deploy a lander and rover onto the surface of Mars in 2020. (Xinhua via AP)

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.

A hand out image made available by the European Southern Observatory on August 24 2016, shows an artist's impression of a view of the surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. The double star Alpha Centauri AB also appears in the image to the upper-right of Proxima itself. Proxima b is a little more massive than the Earth and orbits in the habitable zone around Proxima Centauri, where the temperature is suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface. Scientists on August 24, 2016 announced the discovery of an Earth-sized planet orbiting the star nearest our Sun, opening up the glittering prospect of a habitable world that may one day be explored by robots. Named Proxima b, the planet is in a

‘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 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.

Colombian astronaut Diego Urbina tests the Gandolfi 2 spacesuit next to 'Yemo' robot during the Moonwalk project's first Mars mission simulation in the southwestern Spanish town of Minas de Riotinto, Huelva province, on April 22, 2016. The goal of project MOONWALK is to develop and test technologies and training procedures for future human missions to Moon and Mars. / AFP PHOTO / JORGE GUERRERO

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.

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Asteroid didn’t kill dinosaurs

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.

This NASA TV video grab shows US astronaut Kate Rubins viewed near the docking port on August 19, 2016 at the International Space Station. With more private spaceship traffic expected at the International Space Station in the coming years, two US astronauts embarked on a spacewalk Friday to install a special parking spot for them. The spacewalk began at 8:04 (1204 GMT) when Americans Jeff Williams and Kate Rubins switched their spacesuits to internal battery power. Shortly afterward, they made their way outside the orbiting laboratory to begin the work of attaching an international docking adaptor, launched aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo ship last month. / AFP PHOTO / NASA TV / Lizabeth MENZIES / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

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

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.

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Tiny robots to map the universe

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.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 12: Stephen Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui Wong-Avery Director of Research, University of Cambridge on stage as he and Yuri Milner host press conference to announce Breakthrough Starshot, a new space exploration initiative, at One World Observatory on April 12, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize Foundation)

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.

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China takes quantum leap in space race

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’

‘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.

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Planet Neptune photographed by Voyager 2 space probe superimposed on image of it's moon Triton. universe /Astronomy

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.

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Venus was once habitable: NASA

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

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.

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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

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