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View of the planet Mars (pic: NASA). /Mars/Planet

Space: What we learnt in 2015

WATER on another planet. Earth 2.0. The secrets of dark matter. We know more about these things today than at any other time in human history.

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Russia's Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft carrying the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 46/47 crew of Britain's astronaut Tim Peake, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and US astronaut Tim Kopra blasts off from the launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome on December 15, 2015. AFP PHOTO / KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV

Weird things Astronauts do

IT’S taken years of training and millions of dollars. But before these astronauts blasted off this week, they committed a very bizarre series of private rituals.

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Apollo 16 trash site traced

Apollo 16 trash site traced

A MISSING disposable booster from the Apollo 16 mission to the Moon has been found — 43 years after it drifted out of sight and disappeared.

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***SUNDAY CALENDAR SNEAKS STORY FOR NOVEMBER 2, 2014. DO NOT USE PRIOR TO PUBLICATION********* From the movie INTERSTELLAR, from Paramount Pictures and Warner Brothers Entertainment. FROM CHRISTOPHER NOLAN. The look of our black hole was based on real science; equations given to our visual effects team by Kip Thorne, our executive producer, that define exactly how the black hole's gravity would warp space-time and bend light to create the otherworldly image. Their collaboration yielded great imagery and actually furthered the science of black hole research.

Do black holes reverse time?

DOES the intense gravity of black holes twist time and space so much that the future gets turned on its head? Some mind-bending new ideas by US astrophysicists suggest so.

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Alien structure? Nobody’s home

Alien structure? Nobody’s home

SETI scientists have been quietly listening to a weirdly flickering star since it sparked intense speculation about alien megastructures last month. So far, ET’s not phoned home.

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