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Outback smashed by asteroids

TWO asteroids, each 10km across, slammed into Outback Australia 300 million years ago. The 400km-wide scar they left behind has just been found.

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World’s biggest asteroid impact zone discovered in Australia

Australia’s record-breaking asteroid

MOVE over the Big Pineapple and the Big Banana, Australia is now the proud owner of the world’s biggest asteroid impact zone.

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This man could hold the key to Mars travel

This man is the key to Mars travel

THIS man is about to leave for a record-breaking space mission that will determine if humans can travel to Mars.

TOPSHOTS A partial solar eclipse is visible over a statue located at the rooftop of Austrian Art History Museum in Vienna on March 20, 2015. AFP PHOTO / JOE KLAMAR

Last night’s solar eclipse looked amazing

A SOLAR eclipse has left Europe in awe. Everyone from Dutch royals to pets took part in viewing the spectacle overnight.

In this image taken from NASA video, US astronaut Terry Virts(L)working during a spacewalk on March 1, 2015, to prepare the International Space Station for the arrival of commercial space capsules in the coming years. Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts began the spacewalk at 6:52 am (1152 GMT). During the six hour, 45 minute outing, they plan to set up antennas and communications equipment so that future crews launching from Florida on US commercial spacecraft will be able to park at the space station, NASA said. Another main part of their task is to route 400 feet (121 meters) of cable. The spacewalk is the third in eight days for NASA, and is the 187th in the history of the space station. == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / MANDATORY CREDIT:

Expedition 42 a success as astronauts return

A GROUP of space explorers have touched down safely after spending 167 days in space and travelling more than 112 million kilometres during that time.

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Who actually owns the moon?

A BILLIONAIRE plans to land a spacecraft on the moon next year to extract valuable, precious resources from it. But wait, can he do that?

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’Meteorite landed 20m from me’

’Meteorite landed 20m from me’

AN Aussie farmer says a suspected meteorite which flashed across Perth skies this morning crashed on her farm and she’s invited others to help look for it.

A big, bad nuclear boom on Mars?

A big, bad nuclear boom on Mars?

IT’S a favourite among Red Planet conspiracy theorists: That a massive nuclear war scorched Mars lifeless. Now a new photo is being bandied about as “evidence”.

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Thia NASA image obtained March 6, 2015 shows Ceres, taken by the Dawn spacecraft on March 1, just a few days before the mission achieved orbit around the previously unexplored world. The image shows Ceres as a crescent, mostly in shadow because the spacecraft's trajectory put it on a side of Ceres that faces away from the sun until mid-April. When Dawn emerges from Ceres' dark side, it will deliver ever-sharper images as it spirals to lower orbits around the planet. The image was obtained at a distance of about 30,000 miles (about 48,000 kilometers) at a sun-Ceres-spacecraft angle, or phase angle, of 123 degrees. Image scale on Ceres is 1.9 miles (2.9 kilometers) per pixel. Ceres has an average diameter of about 590 miles (950 kilometers). The probe will stay over the mysterious body for sixteen months to better study its structure and gather clues to help mankind better understand how the planets were created. AFP PHOTO/NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/HANDOUT = RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / MANDATORY CREDIT:

NASA craft first to orbit dwarf planet

A NASA spacecraft for the first time has arrived at a dwarf planet to begin a 16-month exploration.

This image shows the huge galaxy cluster MACS J1149+2223, whose light took over 5 billion years to reach us. The huge mass of the cluster and one of the galaxies within it is bending the light from a supernova behind them and creating four separate images of it. The light has been magnified and distorted due to gravitational lensing and as a result the images are arranged around the elliptical galaxy in a formation known as an Einstein cross. A close-up of the Einstein cross is shown in the inset.

Captured: A twist in space and time

BOOM. Bend. Repeat. The universe doesn’t only have a sense of humour, it’s also a tease. Twists in space and time have given us a four-split view of a supernova. And we’ll get a re-run.

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Life on Mars is harder than you think

IT’S a reality TV show from another planet, literally. Mars One plans to send people on a one-way journey to the red planet. But is it actually possible?

In this image made from video provided by NASA, astronaut Terry Virts points to his helmet as he sits inside the International Space Station on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015 during an inspection for water in his suit. Virts reported the water while he waited in the air lock for Wednesday's spacewalk to formally conclude. (AP Photo/NASA)

Astronaut’s drowning nightmare realised

TWO years ago, an astronaut nearly drowned inside his helmet in outer space. NASA raced against the clock to make sure it didn’t happen again. They may have failed.

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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of NGC 7049 in the constellation of Indus, in the southern sky. A family of globular clusters appears as glittering spots dusted around the galaxy halo. Astronomers study the globular clusters in NGC 7049 to learn more about its formation and evolution. The dust lanes, which appear as a lacy web, are dramatically backlit by the millions of stars in the halo of NGC 7049.

Is dark matter behind mass extinction?

EVERY 30 million years, Earth goes through a seemingly scheduled die-off. A new idea has been put forward to explain it: Elusive, mysterious dark matter.

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US astronaut Rick Mastracchio takes a

First ever space selfie goes on sale

BUZZ Aldrin called it the “best selfie ever” but as it goes to auction with a collection of vintage photos from the space age, don’t expect to be able to afford it.

NASA image artist image projection showing a body of water under the icy surface of one of Jupiter's moons, called Europa.

Is there life on Jupiter’s moon?

NASA thinks there may be alien life on one of Jupiter’s small, icy moons, and scientists are planning a major mission to test the idea.

Astronaut Robert L. Curbeam, Jr., STS-116 mission specialist, prepares to replace a faulty TV camera on the exterior of the International Space Station during the mission's first of three planned sessions of extravehicular activity (EVA). Astronaut Christer Fuglesang (out of frame), mission specialist representing the European Space Agency (ESA), also participated in the 6-hour, 36-minute spacewalk. Curbeam stepped outside the space station today, Monday, December 18, 2006, for the fourth time in a week, setting a record for spacewalks on a single mission and making another attempt to free a jammed solar array. Source: NASA via Bloomberg News.

NASA delays spacewalks due to faulty equipment

A PROBLEM with spacesuits has forced NASA to delay a series of spacewalks to carry out major work at the International Space Station.

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This Hubble image shows RS Puppis, a type of variable star known as a Cepheid variable. As variable stars go, Cepheids have comparatively long periods — RS Puppis, for example, varies in brightness by almost a factor of five every 40 or so days. RS Puppis is unusual; this variable star is shrouded by thick, dark clouds of dust enabling a phenomenon known as a light echo to be shown with stunning clarity. These Hubble observations show the ethereal object embedded in its dusty environment, set against a dark sky filled with background galaxies.

Astronomy’s darkest discovery yet

DON’T look now. There’s an entire invisible galaxy lurking right next door. We can’t see it. But the telltale signs of its presence are starting to show…

Cod Ghosts Odin Spacewalk

How astronauts prepare for a space walk

WHEN Richard Branson finally manages commercial flights into space, this is something you will want to know.

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(FILES) A file handout picture taken on August 12, 2014 shows NASA image from video taken by High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment aboard the ISS, mounted on the External Payload Facility of the European Space Agency’s Columbus module, shows the International Space Station (R) as it orbits the Earth. Europe's fifth and last robot cargo ship (ATV) undocked from the International Space Station (ISS), on February 14, 2015. AFP PHOTO / HANDOUT / NASA == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / MANDATORY CREDIT:

The drowning that terrifies NASA

A NASA astronaut nearly died in his spacesuit. Two years on, engineers are racing against time to fix the glitch before crucial missions in the coming days.

Space mission 10 years in the making

Space mission 10 years in the making

The significance of this mission cannot be overstated. For 85 years Pluto has remained a mystery. But that’s about to change.

‘We’ve got a ticket to die’

‘We’ve got a ticket to die’

MEET the Aussies on the trip of a lifetime: A one-way adventure to Mars. But it will also cost them their lives – if they ever get off the ground.

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Would you watch me die on Mars?

Would you watch me die on Mars?

MARS ONE: It’s either the greatest adventure in history, or one of its greatest shams. Soon 24 reality TV contestants will be told they have won a one-way ticket to Mars.

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Watch a comet come to life

Watch a comet come to life

FOR the first time in history we have front-row seats as a long-dormant comet begins to stir. And the view is amazing.

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Telescope captures ‘happy face’ galaxy

Telescope captures ‘happy face’ galaxy

WHAT is round, has two shining eyes and a welcoming smile? A galaxy, apparently. Meet the happiest one in the universe.

(FILES) This artist's concept obtained December 1, 2014 courtesy of NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute (JHUAPL/SwRI), shows the New Horizons spacecraft as it approaches Pluto and its three moons in summer 2015. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has travelled 3,106,844,378 miles (5 billion km) and is nearing the end of its nine-year journey to Pluto. On January 25, 2015 New Horizons begins photographing the mysterious, unexplored, icy world once deemed a planet. The first pictures will reveal little more than bright dots — New Horizons is still more than 99,419,020 miles (160 million km) from Pluto. But the images, taken against star fields, will help scientists gauge the remaining distance and keep the baby grand piano-sized robot on track for a July flyby. = RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / MANDATORY CREDIT:

Deep space discovery – via Twitter

TWO lonely but hip robots will take us into our solar system’s darkest corners this year, and they’re already giving us tantalising Tweets of what is to come.

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30/03/2000 WIRE: 30/03/2000 WIRE: Artist's rendering of Saturn-sized planet around star 79 Ceti, which is 117 light years away in the constellation of Cetus, the sea monster after team of planet-hunting astronomers announced they found evidence of smallest planets yet discovered beyond the solar system, 03/2000.

New planet 200 times the size of Saturn

ASTRONOMERS have discovered the first-ever ringed planet beyond our solar system, an enormous celestial body 200 times the size of Saturn.

Strongest hint yet of alien life?

Strongest hint yet of alien life?

SCIENTISTS have made a remarkable discovery that could point to the existence of ancient alien life.

A mountain-sized asteroid is heading towards Earth, but we need not worry, apparently. Picture: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Huge asteroid stuns NASA as it flies by

THE asteroid that skimmed by Earth last night was already unusual because of its hulking size. Then NASA noticed something even stranger about it.

NASA wants to send a helicopter to Mars

NASA wants to send a helicopter to Mars

NASA wants to explore more of Mars. How do you do that when the terrain is full of dangerous crevasses? Send a helicopter, of course.

Artist's concept of the New Horizons spacecraft as it approaches Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, in July 2015. The craft's miniature cameras, radio science experiment, ultraviolet and infrared spectrometers and space plasma experiments will characterize the global geology and geomorphology of Pluto and Charon, map their surface compositions and temperatures, and examine Pluto's atmosphere in detail. The spacecraft's most prominent design feature is a nearly 7-foot (2.1-meter) dish antenna, through which it will communicate with Earth from as far as 4.7 billion miles (7.5 billion kilometers) away. NASA Identifier: PLAN-PIA10075

What does Pluto look like up close?

IT may have taken nine years to get there, but NASA is close to giving humanity its first high-resolution view of the icy world of Pluto.

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