Russia ‘to build own space station’
THE Russian government wants to build its own version of the International Space Station. If they complete the ambitious plan, it will put them in direct competition with the West.
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Mars rover detects signs of life
NASA’s Mars rover, Curiosity, has detected spikes of methane in the planet’s atmosphere. Is this the sign of life we’ve been looking for?
Super-Earth: Alien planet spotted
ON THIS strange planet temperatures reach more than 1700 degrees celcius — hot enough to melt metal. And it’s twice the size of Earth.
Giant star collision could cause explosion
LOCATED in a cluster 13,000 light-years from Earth, a hot blue star that’s 32 times larger than the sun is about to merge with another giant star. And it’s going to get very interesting.
Does this prove aliens exist?
UNTIL the day we make contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life, there will always be speculation, hope and fear about the existence of aliens. This year was no different.
Comet find rewrites Earth’s history
MANKIND’S first ever probe of a comet may have just solved one of Earth’s longest-running mysteries about the building blocks of life on this planet.
Incredible satellite images of 2014
SEE the Earth’s most intriguing and deadly moments like never before, thanks to these images captured by some of the most powerful commercial satellites orbiting the planet.
Asteroid ‘heading towards Earth’
IT CROSSES paths once every three years, and if this asteroid hit Earth, it would cause an explosion 1,000 times greater than the one that blew up over Russia.
It’s alive! Probe nears Pluto
A PROBE that will explore Pluto has woken from its slumber, after a nine-year journey to take a close look at the distant body for the first time.
Mystery circle on Mars’ surface
THIS one’s for real. Forget the faces and the pyramids: An odd ‘boil’ on the face of Mars has scientists scrambling for an explanation.
NASA’s Orion aces first flight test
NASA’s unmanned Orion space capsule has splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off Baja California following its first successful flight test.
The strange galaxy far, far away
A VERY unusual spiral galaxy “beast” has been discovered 800 million light-years from Earth. Find out why it has astronomers so baffled.
NASA scraps Mars Orion mission
THE Orion manned space probe, which NASA says is the first step to Mars, has postponed until tomorrow after multiple delays.
Warning: Earth is ‘living on borrowed time’
SOME of the world’s leading experts in astrophysics have issued a warning that life-ending asteroids could be heading Earth’s way.
Is this proof of life on Mars?
RESEARCHERS say they’ve found possible evidence that there was once life on the red planet, and it’s locked inside an ‘alien rock’ that fell to Earth.
Like spacesuits? They’ll grow on you
BACTERIAL bodices and digestive dacks? It’s life, but not as we know it. A designer’s quest to build a better space suit has inspired a new line of living spacewear.
Jaw-dropping vision of life in outer space
A FILMMAKER has combined real data and images from space exploration into a jaw-dropping short film to show what life in outer space will really be like.
NASA blasts back into space race
IT’S NASA’s dramatic return to the space race. But will this week’s test launch of a new spaceship designed to carry men to Mars go to plan?
How could these stars simply vanish?
A MASSIVE population of stars has disappeared, leaving scientists totally stumped as to where it could have gone.
‘Abductee’ returns to alien site
A BRIGHT light in the forest. A strange flying disc. Snatched by aliens. Abductee Travis Walton wants you to join him at the site where “it happened” 40 years ago.
New planets on edge of discovery
PLANET X is back: New evidence suggests one — or possibly two — wayward worlds are circling in the darkness beyond Neptune.
European space plane set to launch
EUROPE has announced the February launch of its first-ever ‘space plane’, just weeks after the fatal crash of Virgin Galactics SpaceShipTwo.
Putin taunts the world from space
A STRANGE new Russian satellite has the US and NATO nervous: It’s not doing what satellites normally do, sparking fears it is really a secret killer.
Black holes reveal a cosmic clue
A GIANT telescope has made an incredible discovery: Black holes all line up in a row, like spinning tops across the universe. And no one knows why.
Dash cam captures huge fireball
DOES this dash cam footage show an exploding meteor in the skies above Ukraine – or something more sinister?
Rosetta comet ‘an alien space craft’
THE Rosetta mission has uncovered something huge – carbon compounds that may be the building blocks of life. But conspiracy theorists say there’s more to it.
Comet probe ‘sniffs out’ organic matter
THE Philae lander discovered organic matter in the atmosphere after its historic landing on a comet, say scientists.
Why people are dying to live on Mars
IT has a population of two robots and lots of rocks. But crowds of people are fighting to board a one-way rocket Mars. What are their chances of making it?
Comet scientists wait for signals
IT may be some time before scientists re-establish communication with the Philae comet lander, which fell silent after its power ran out.
Strange goings-on in Uranus
FOR years, experts have thought that the seventh planet from the Sun was one of the calmest gas giants in our Solar System — until now.
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