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This photo provided by the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center via NASA, shows astronaut Scott Kelly. After nearly a year in space, Kelly is just a few days away from returning to Earth. On Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, Kelly is scheduled to hold his final news conference from the International Space Station. He’ll check out Tuesday, riding a Russian Soyuz capsule back to the planet to end NASA’s longest space flight ever. (AP Photo/Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center via NASA)

What a year in space does to the body

HARMFUL cosmic rays, zero gravity, having to drink recycled urine. This is what a year in space does to the human body.

Meteor glowing as it enters the Earth's atmosphere. Elements of this image furnished by NASA

Fireball meteor exploded over the Atlantic

NASA has described a fireball meteor that shot across the sky over the Atlantic Ocean as the largest since the Chelyabinsk meteor over Russia in 2013.

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This artistic rendering provided by California Institute of Technology shows the distant view from Planet Nine back towards the sun. The planet is thought to be gaseous, similar to Uranus and Neptune. Hypothetical lightning lights up the night side. Scientists reported Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016, they finally have

The elusive Planet Nine draws closer

WE’RE not even sure if it exists, but researchers just got one step closer to finding the ninth planet in our solar system.

New Fast Radio Burst Discovery. Picture: SKAO

Radio flash traced to faraway galaxy

SCIENTISTS have for the first time traced the source of a ‘fast radio burst’ — a fleeting explosion of radio waves — to a galaxy six billion light years away.

Mystery alien ‘Wow!’ signal solved

Mystery alien ‘Wow!’ signal solved

A SCIENTIST claims to have decrypted the famous signal from outer space that has fuelled the hopes of alien hunters for 40 years.

Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Chris Hadfield stands on the portable foot restraint (PFR) connected to Canadarm on Space Shuttle Endeavour during one of two spacewalks (also known as EVAs or extravehicular activities) of mission STS-100. Astronaut Scott Parazynski, who shared both spacewalks with Hadfield and who took this photo, can be seen in the reflection on Hadfield's visor. Credit: NASA

How to become an astronaut

NASA gets record number of applications to its astronaut training program, revealing what it takes to be selected into one of the most exclusive classes on and off the planet.

1969 -- The prime crew of the Apollo 10 lunar orbit mission at the Kennedy Space Center. They are from left to right: Lunar Module pilot, Eugene A. Cernan, Commander, Thomas P. Stafford, and Command Module pilot John W. Young. Picture: NASA (no copyright applies)

Astronauts heard ‘weird music’ on moon

A CREW of astronauts on Apollo 10, three months before Neil Armstrong’s famous landing, captured “music” while orbiting the backside of the moon.

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A year in the life of the sun

A year in the life of the sun

NOW here is something that will brighten your day. NASA has released a stunning time lapse video of the sun’s activity in 2015.

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FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2013, file photo, British entrepreneur Richard Branson poses with the first SpaceShipTwo at a Virgin Galactic hangar at Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, Calif. Virgin Galactic will roll out a new copy of its space tourism rocket Friday, Feb. 19, 2016, as it prepares to resume flight testing for the first time since a 2014 accident destroyed the original and killed one of its two pilots. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

Branson unveils new space rocket

SIR Richard Branson is to unveil the new Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo in the next few hours in the race to be the first to send passengers into space.

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(FILES) This file picture taken on July 29, 2015 shows the 500-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) under construction in Pingtang, in southwest China's Guizhou province. China will move nearly 10,000 people to make way for the world's largest radio telescope which promises to help humanity search for alien life, state media reported on February 16, 2016. The 500-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), nestled between hills in the southwestern province of Guizhou, is due to start operation this year. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO / FILES

Huge human cost in alien search

IT’S a radical plan to “explore the unknown nature of mankind and drive us to a greater future”. But what price will humans pay?

$CREDIT: Australscope ONLINE USE ONLY Pic shows: before and after the flash. A huge and blinding flash that for a fraction of a second turned several Russian cities in to day is causing heated debate. UFO watchers have already turned out in force to blame it on extraterrestrials after government officials admitted they had no explanation for the flash.$

Mystery flash lights up night sky

ASTRONOMERS have been left stumped after a huge and blinding flash lit up the night sky in western Russia.

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An undated image provided by World View shows an illustration of the World View space capsule which is complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a lavatory and a 360-degree view. The World View travel experience is more approachable than a brief, jolting rocket ride. Space tourism companies are employing designs including winged vehicles, vertical rockets with capsules and high-altitude balloons. While developers envision ultimately taking people to orbiting habitats, the moon or beyond, the immediate future involves short flights into or near the lowest reaches of space without going into orbit. (World View via AP)

Space tourism is closer than you think

THE dream of sending tourists to space is still well and truly alive. These are all the exciting projects currently under development.

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Science confirms Einstein’s greatest theory

Science confirms Einstein’s greatest theory

A CENTURY after Einstein predicted it, scientists say they have finally detected gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space-time.

Is this proof Einstein was right?

Is this proof Einstein was right?

EINSTEIN’S greatest prediction may have been correct. Two black holes have exposed the fabric of space-time.

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A dark force is dragging our galaxy in

Mysterious ‘intergalactic force’ discovered

ASTRONOMERS have discovered a mysterious force that’s tugging at our galaxy – along with hundreds of others.

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Indian authorities inspect the site of a suspected meteorite landing on February 7, 2016 in Vellore district in southern Tamil Nadu state in an impact that killed a bus driver and injured three others on February 6. If proven, it would be the first such death in recorded history. The impact of the object left a large crater in the ground and shattered window panes in a nearby building, killing the driver who was walking past. AFP PHOTO

Man killed by meteorite in India

AUTHORITIES say a falling object that killed a man and injured others was a meteorite: the first such death in recorded history.

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Meet the Aussie bound for Mars

‘I am committed to going to Mars’

MEET the Australian ready to give up love in the quest to be the first human to live on Mars.

South Headland Police Twitter post following suspected UFO sighting.

Police have perfect answer to UFO rumours

A REMOTE corner of Australia was in panic mode on the weekend with sightings of a possible UFO. That was until police nabbed the prime suspect.

THE X-FILES: L-R: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. The next mind-bending chapter of THE X-FILES debuts with a special two-night event beginning Sunday, Jan. 24 (10:00-11:00 PM ET/7:00-8:00 PM PT), following the NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, and continuing with its time period premiere on Monday, Jan. 25 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT). Â©2015 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Frank Ockenfels/FOX

Our most terrifying UFO abductions

WITH X-Files hitting our television screens again, here are some of Australia’s most disturbing and unbelievable reports of alien abductions.

This photo released by 20th Century Fox shows Matt Damon in a scene from the film,

Why we are not going to Mars

NASA has been vigorously promoting its plans for a human mission to Mars. However, its plans have been destroyed by a congressional committee.

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CREDIT: CEN/Australscope ONLINE USE ONLY Pic shows: The UFOs flying in unison over Moscow. Astonishing video footage of what looks like a cluster of UFOs flying in unison over Moscow has been declared authentic by experts. The film - shot in Russia's capital at the end of last month - shows four unidentified lights hovering and swooping above the city in what looks like synchronised flying.

Hovering UFOs declared genuine

ASTONISHING footage of four balls of light flying in unison across the night sky in Russia, has been declared to be authentic.

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Giant cloud on collision course with Milky Way

Giant cloud on collision course with Milky Way

A GIGANTIC gas cloud with as much mass as a million suns is on a collision course with our galaxy. Luckily we have plenty of time to prepare.

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Earth in space with a flying asteroid, abstract background

Asteroid will miss Earth by 17,000km

MARK March 5 in your calendars. An asteroid is hurtling towards Earth and is expected to come uncomfortably close.

Kamikaze cloud plunging into Milky Way

Kamikaze cloud plunging into Milky Way

A FREAKISHLY fast gas cloud is plummeting towards our galaxy at 1,116,000 kilometres each hour. When it hits — in 30 million years time — it will bathe our night sky with new light.

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Black hole This artist's impression shows the surroundings of a supermassive black hole, typical of that found at the heart of many galaxies. The black hole itself is surrounded by a brilliant accretion disc of very hot, infallingmaterial and, further out, a dusty torus. There are also often high-speedjets of material ejected at the black hole's poles that can extend hugedistances into space. Observations with ALMA have detected a very strongmagnetic field close to the black hole at the base of the jets and this isprobably involved in jet production and collimation. Picture: ESO/L. Calçada.

Hawking: Black holes could help us

PROFESSOR Stephen Hawking has suggested a black hole could be more than just a dead end in the universe, saying they could help humans on Earth.

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Expedition 46 flight engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency (ESA) shared this stunning nighttime photograph with his social media followers on January 25, 2016, writing,

Earth was actually two planets

YES, you read that headline correctly. It has been discovered a smaller planet and early Earth effectively mixed together.

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CIA reveals its real-life X-Files

CIA reveals its real-life X-Files

THE world’s most notorious intelligence agency has released a bunch of documents about UFOs. Here’s what they reveal.

CREDIT: Chinese Academy of Sciences / China National Space Administration / The Science and Application Center for Moon and Deepspace Exploration Incredible high-definition pictures of the Moon's surface released by Chinese space agency

China just posted incredible moon photos

HUNDREDS of high-resolution photos taken by a Chinese lunar probe have emerged online, showing the moon’s surface in vivid detail.

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Moon born out of planet collision

A HEAD-ON collision between a young Earth and a “planetary embryo” spawned our moon about 4.5 billion years ago.

British astronaut Tim Peake posts stunning images of Earth from Space. Picture: Tim Peake/Twitter

Stunning pics of Earth from space

BRITISH astronaut Tim Peake stunned his followers after tweeting some incredible snaps of the UK from space.

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