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‘Alien megastructure’ star gets weirder

‘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.

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The galaxy’s Top 20 places to live

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?

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North Korea plans moon landing

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.

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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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Asteroid ‘on course to pulverise Earth’

NASA will soon launch a probe to study an asteroid that crosses Earth’s orbit every six years and could pulverise the planet.

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The unforeseen cost of Apollo missions

NEW research with major implications for space travel studied the Apollo astronauts and points to the potentially fatal consequences of deep space expeditions.

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a modified model of the Long March CZ-2F rocket carrying the unmanned ...

China launches new global space race

CHINA is about to launch a groundbreaking mission into space, sparking a new technology race with huge implications for us back on Earth.

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Astronauts trained for war in space

AMERICA is bracing itself for war in space and has begun training U.S. air force personnel for science fiction-style cosmic conflicts, it has been revealed.

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Proof Einstein’s ‘biggest blunder’ correct

Proof Einstein’s ‘biggest blunder’ correct

EINSTEIN thought he’d made a mistake about the universe, but incredible new research into dark matter proves he was actually right.

Dark mass growing on the sun

Dark mass growing on the sun

NASA is monitoring an enormous dark region spreading across the surface of the sun, discovered by one of its spacecrafts.

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Could this device detect alien life?

Could this device detect alien life?

NASA scientists are about to send a handheld DNA sequencer into space — and they have big hopes for what it could find.

Dying stars may have given birth to humanity

Dying stars may have given birth to humanity

BRILLIANT blasts of blue light. Tidal waves of cosmic radiation. But instead of destroying life on Earth, the death of several nearby stars may have supercharged the human race.

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Mysterious ‘ice planet’ spotted

Mysterious ‘ice planet’ spotted

DUBBED RR245, the icy world is currently about nine billion kilometres from the Sun on the outer reaches of our solar system.

This July 10, 2016, image released by NASA was taken by the Juno spacecraft, five days after it arrived at Jupiter. The image shows Jupiter's Great Red Spot and three of its four largest moons. Juno is on a 20-month mission to study Jupiter's poles, atmosphere and interior. (Juno/NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS via AP)

Juno spacecraft sends first images

THE NASA spacecraft Juno – out on a 20-month mission – has sent back the first pictures since arriving at Jupiter.

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#Manhattanhenge shuts down NYC

A RARE solar phenomenon has made an appearance in New York City, with thousands stopping traffic to snap that perfect picture.

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In this image taken from China's CCTV via APTN, a video image show the docking of the Shenzhou 8 craft that was launched Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011 with the already orbiting Tiangong 1 module in the early morning of Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. The two unmanned Chinese spacecraft docked successfully and were orbiting the Earth together Thursday in a step that moves China closer to manning its own space station in about a decade. (AP Photo/CCTV via APTN) CHINA OUT, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

China’s space station ‘out of control’

CHINA has lost contact with its space station amid concerns its space hardware could hurtle back towards Earth in an uncontrolled fireball.

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A Union flag flies above an English St. Georges Cross flag near the Big Ben clock face and the Elizabeth Tower at Houses of Parliament in central London on June 29, 2016. Europe's leaders meet Wednesday without Britain for the first time following its shock decision to leave the EU, trying to pick up the pieces and prevent further disintegration. Britain has been pitched into uncertainty by the result of the June 23 referendum, with Cameron announcing his resignation, the economy facing a string of shocks and Scotland making a fresh threat to break away. / AFP PHOTO / BEN STANSALL

Why 2016 will have an extra second

A second is just a moment in real time, but adding it to the official clock can play havoc with computer networks.

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This artist's impression released by the European Southern Observatory on July 7, 2016, shows a view of the triple star system HD 131399 from close to the giant planet orbiting in the system. The planet is known as HD 131399Ab and appears at the lower-left of the picture. Located about 320 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Centaurus, HD 131399Ab is about 16 million years old, making it also one of the youngest exoplanets discovered to date, and one of very few directly-imaged planets. / AFP PHOTO / EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY / L. Calcada / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

New planet’s 24-hour daylight

IMAGINE a planet with triple sunrises and sunsets every day for part of the year, and non-stop daylight at other times.

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Crazy slingshot move that got us to Jupiter

Crazy slingshot move that got us to Jupiter

THE Juno mission to Jupiter used a “sling shot” technique featured in Hollywood blockbusters. But the move has origins further back than that.

A 1/4 scale model size of NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft is displayed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. on Friday, July 1, 2016. The spacecraft is on the final leg of a five-year, 1.8 billion-mile voyage to the biggest planet in the solar system. It's expected to reach Jupiter and go into orbit around the planet on July 4. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

‘Juno, welcome to Jupiter’

IT WAS the moment of truth for NASA scientists — and as the world watched, it didn’t disappoint.

This 2010 artist's rendering depicts NASA's Juno spacecraft with Jupiter in the background. The robotic explorer Juno is set ...

Beyond help: 35 minutes in the vortex

AFTER five years of hard work it all comes down to these 35 minutes for the Juno spacecraft. If anything goes wrong, there is nothing anyone can do.

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 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)

Woman charged over death threats

AN AMERICAN woman was handed a jail sentence in Spain Friday for threatening to kill cosmologist Stephen Hawking.

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Rare look at our largest planet

Rare look at our largest planet

A NASA spacecraft is nearing our largest planet and set to get a rare look beyond Jupiter’s clouds and send back close up views.

Why has the sun gone blank?

Why has the sun gone blank?

THE sun has gone completely “blank” for the second time this month. Scientists say that means big things for the weather.

Images of the sun taken in north Queensland by Ralph Smith

Chilling predictions over lack of sun activity

THE sun has ‘gone blank’ for the second time this month, heralding the arrival of a mini Ice Age, it has been claimed.

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A woman walks with a child as they visit a park with replicas of foreign and domestic space vehicles displayed in Beijing, China, Sunday, June 26, 2016. China on Sunday recovered an experimental probe launched aboard a new generation rocket, marking another milestone in its increasingly ambitious space program that envisions a mission to Mars by the end of the decade. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China’s giant leap towards Mars

CHINA has recovered an experimental probe launched aboard a new rocket, marking another milestone in its ambitious space program to get to Mars by the end of the decade.

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Oxygen found in distant, early galaxy

Oxygen found in distant, early galaxy

USING an array of antennas in the mountains of Chile, scientists have discovered the presence of oxygen that existed in a galaxy, far, far away.

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Member of the International Space Station (ISS) crew Britain's Tim Peake gestures shortly after landing near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Saturday, June 18, 2016. A three-person crew from the International Space Station has landed safely in the sun-drenched steppes of Kazakhstan. (Shamil Zhumatov/Pool Photo via AP)

Pizza, beer on menu after space voyage

AN International Space Station crew including an American, a Briton and a Russian has landed safely back on Earth.

More ripples detected in fabric of space

More ripples detected in fabric of space

GRAVITATIONAL waves have been detected for the second time from black hole 21 times the mass of the sun.

‘Alien’ rock unlike anything seen before

‘Alien’ rock unlike anything seen before

SCIENTISTS in Sweden have unearthed a meteorite which doesn’t match anything in their labs. The chemical composition of the tennis-ball sized piece of space rock is positively ‘alien’.

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