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An artist's impression of Tom's planet, WASP-142b, orbiting its star, WASP-142. Picture: David Ha

Work experience kid finds planet

A 15-YEAR-OLD schoolboy has discovered a new planet orbiting a star 1000 light years away while he was doing work experience.

‘We’re gonna make porn in space’

‘We’re gonna make porn in space’

IT’S one of the biggest porn producers on Earth but the world is not enough for this sex industry giant. Would you join the 62 Mile High Club?

The most incredible selfie from space

The most incredible selfie from space

AN ocean of troubles beset them. The tide of time was against them. But persistence has prevailed — and a light sail has unfurled — opening up new possibilities in space travel.

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(FILES)This June 2, 2015 NASA artist's concept shows the test vehicle for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator(LDSD), designed to test landing technologies for future Mars missions. The test launch of a NASA flying saucer equipped with a supersonic parachute that may one day help spacecraft land on Mars was postponed again on June 5, 2015 due to bad weather.The reason for the scrub was

NASA‘s ‘flying saucer’ test disaster

NASA has launched it’s ‘flying saucer’ that will test technologies for landing on Mars. However, a fatal error has grounded the project for now.

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Intimate brush with a naked alien landscape

Intimate brush with a naked alien landscape

THIS heavenly body’s beauty is incredible — in a stark, primordial kind of way. The eerie landscape of Comet 67P is unlike anything we’ve seen before.

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This NASA artist's concept obtained June 2, 2015 shows the test vehicle for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator(LDSD), designed to test landing technologies for future Mars missions. After scrapping a planned June 2, 2015 launch from the US Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, because of unfavorable ocean conditions, the waves were too high to successfully retrieve the LDSD when it returns to Earth, NASA is planning to try around 1:30 pm ET on June 3, 2015. AFP PHOTO/NASA/JPL-CALTECH = RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / MANDATORY CREDIT:

Monster waves delay NASA parachute

HIGH waves have forced NASA to postpone the first test of the largest parachute ever deployed, during a flying saucer launch.

Pluto’s ‘darn weird’ dysfunctional family

Pluto’s ‘darn weird’ dysfunctional family

THINGS tend to get a little weird out on the fringes. It’s certainly so with Pluto: It can’t seem to control its wayward moons.

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Natural Wonders

PIC FROM MERCURY PRESS/CATERS NEWS(PICTURED - WHAT IS BELIEVED TO BE A UFO WHICH WAS CATPURED BY HARRY PERTON)A nature blogger was stunned when he appeared to capture a UFO on camera. Harry Perton photographed the unusual object in Groningen, the Netherlands, after he ventured out in a storm to take pictures for his blog last week. But he was stunned when he checked his camera and spotted the jellyfish UFO - so called for its appearance - floating in the night sky emitting an eerie flash of green light. SEE MERCURY COPY

Is this a UFO or a jellyfish?

A NATURE blogger was stunned when he appeared to capture a UFO on camera.

Freaky tubes floating above Earth

Freaky tubes floating above Earth

AN AUSSIE student has discovered that giant, invisible, moving plasma tubes fill the skies above Earth. So, what does this mean?

Death star fires planet-killing beam

Death star fires planet-killing beam

THIS death star is fully armed and operational: The Hubble telescope has just spotted its planet-killing beam in action. Is it really moving much faster than the speed of light?

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How this satellite came back from the dead

How this satellite came back from the dead

AFTER eight days in the dark, a privately funded solar sail satellite has rebooted itself and sent reassuring messages to Earth.

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UAE space agency

Emirates’ bold space travel plans

THE United Arab Emirates has revealed plans for its own space agency in a bid ‘to confirm its status as a spacefaring nation’.

Astronaut’s amazing footage from space

Astronaut’s amazing footage from space

A NASA astronaut has given Earth-dwelling plebs a glimpse into the final frontier after posting amazing videos on Twitter.

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NASA finds brightest galaxy in the universe

The brightest galaxy in the universe

A GALAXY shining with the light of more than 300 trillion suns has located been discovered by astrophysicists from NASA.

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This June 2009 photo made available by the U.S. Air Force via NASA shows the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. On Wednesday, May 20, 2015, the Air Force launched its unmanned mini-shuttle from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Like the old shuttle, the X-37B launches vertically and lands horizontally, is reusable, and has lots of room for experiments. But no one flies on them; they are operated robotically. (U.S. Air Force via AP)

US launches secret space plane

THE US air force has launched its robotic space plane into orbit for a fourth flight aboard an Atlas 5 rocket.

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Staring through Medusa’s veils

Staring through Medusa’s veils

BEWARE the gaze of Medusa: Her beauty may be extraordinary, but hidden behind the diaphanous veils is a story of dreadful destruction.

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Staring through Medusa’s veils

Staring through Medusa’s veils

BEWARE the gaze of Medusa: Her beauty may be extraordinary, but hidden behind the diaphanous veils is a story of dreadful destruction.

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‘Alien lights’ captured on dwarf planet

‘Alien lights’ captured on dwarf planet

NASA has released the most detailed pictures yet of the mysterious “alien lights” on dwarf planet Ceres which continue to mystify scientists.

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Solar Light Sail Picture: Josh Spradling / The Planetary Society

Sailing space ship powered by light

A SPACECRAFT with sails that relies just on sunlight for fuel is set for its first flight and its backers hope it could revolutionise interstellar travel.

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Messier 106 Image Credit & Copyright: R Jay Gabany Explanation: Close to the Great Bear (Ursa Major) and surrounded by the stars of the Hunting Dogs (Canes Venatici), this celestial wonder was discovered in 1781 by the metric French astronomer Pierre Mechain. Later, it was added to the catalog of his friend and colleague Charles Messier as M106. Modern deep telescopic views reveal it to be an island universe -- a spiral galaxy around 30 thousand light-years across located only about 21 million light-years beyond the stars of the Milky Way. Along with a bright central core, this colorful composite image highlights youthful blue star clusters and reddish stellar nurseries tracing the galaxy's spiral arms. It also shows off remarkable reddish jets of glowing hydrogen gas. In addition to small companion galaxy NGC 4248 (bottom right) background galaxies can be found scattered throughout the frame. M106 (aka NGC 4258) is a nearby example of the Seyfert class of active galaxies, seen across the spectrum from radio to x-rays. Active galaxies are believed to be powered by matter falling into a massive central black hole.

The answer to why matter exists

EVERYTHING we see and touch is made of matter but for the longest time scientists had no idea why it existed. Now they may have found an answer.

Sarah Brightman taking part in the astronaut training programme at Star City near Moscow.

Russian space officials left scrambling

RUSSIA’S space officials are rushing to find a replacement for British singer Sarah Brightman after she pulled out as the next space tourist four months before her planned trip.

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Sailing into space on a sunbeam

Sailing into space on a sunbeam

COULD travelling to nearby stars be as simple as hoisting a sail? An experimental spacecraft is about to find out.

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Cosmic ‘dinosaur egg’ about to hatch

Cosmic ‘dinosaur egg’ about to hatch

ASTRONOMERS have stumbled across an incredible event in space. They say it ‘could have been plucked straight out of the early universe’.

In this photo taken on Saturday, April 18, 2015, Florian Commans, crew biologist and greenhab officier, of Crew 153, studies a collection of rocks near the Mars Desert Research Station, in Hanksville, Utah. This isn’t Mars, but it’s resemblance to the red planet has made it a hot spot for teams of geologists, biologists and engineers from around the world who have been coming for more than a decade to simulate missions to the mysterious planet in hopes of providing critical research to for future trips to Mars. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Is $6,200 enough money for this?

THE plan to colonise Mars has one giant problem standing in the way. And now NASA is offering cash prizes to the public if they can find a solution.

Sandra Bullock In A Scene From Gravity

Satellite blast sparks Gravity fear

IN A scenario that eerily echoes the plot of ‘Gravity’, scientists claim the explosion of a satellite has left other spacecraft at risk from hurtling debris.

This handout photo provided by NASA and the European Space Agency, taken in 2013 with NASA's Hubble space telescope, shows a galaxy from the farthest distance recorded: 13.1 billion light-years. It is from a time just 670 million years after the Big Bang. Astronomers have discovered a baby blue galaxy that is the farthest away in distance and time that they’ve ever seen. It’s from 13.1 billion years ago, during the universe’s first generation of galaxies. (Pascal Oesch and Ivelina Momcheva, NASA, European Space Agency via AP)

Galaxy from the past found

WRAP your head around this. Scientists have looked back in time to discover a new bright blue galaxy that is the farthest thing away from us we’ve ever seen.

A new study of 51 distant quasars using Chandra reveals a population of black holes that consume excessive amounts of matter. The artist's illustration shows how a thick, donut-shaped disk around the black hole blocks a substantial amount of the X-rays that would otherwise escape the system. The important implication of these

NASA uncovers hungry black holes

SCIENTISTS believe thick, doughnut-shaped discs of gas and dust are hiding gigantic black holes in space that are growing at an extraordinarily rapid rate.

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This visualisation of the three-dimensional structure of the Pillars of Creation within the star formation region Messier 16 (also called the Eagle Nebula) is based on new observations of the object using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. The pillars actually consist of several distinct pieces on either side of the star cluster NGC 6611. In this illustration, the relative distance between the pillars along the line of sight is not to scale.

Pillars of Creation ‘dying in starbirth’

SCIENTISTS have dissected one of astronomy’s most famous images and discovered a tragic side to the story of the evolution of stars.

In this Feb. 5, 2014 photo provided by NASA, an ISS Progress resupply vehicle approaches the International Space Station. On Wednesday, April 29, 2015, NASA and the Russian Space Agency declared a total loss on an unmanned Progress capsule, carrying 3 tons of goods to the station. The spacecraft began tumbling when it reached orbit Tuesday, following launch from Kazakhstan, and flight controllers were unable to bring it under control. (NASA via AP)

Watch a spacecraft in its death-dive

AN out-of-control Russian spacecraft is likely to be visible over Australia’s major cities before its anticipated crash-down later this week.

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Coffee machine conquers space station

Coffee machine conquers space station

TO boldly brew where no one has brewed before: An Italian astronaut has completed her one-year mission — to drink fresh coffee aboard the International Space Station.

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