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We just emailed a spare part to space

We just emailed a spare part to space

THIS wrench has just boldly gone where no wrench has gone before … from a digital model in an Earth-based office to a fully functional 3D printed tool aboard the ISS.

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Is this Death Star headed our way?

Is this Death Star headed our way?

AS stars go, Eta Carinae is big. It’s old. It’s volatile. And it’s about to blow. So will it really lead to the next extinction on Earth and kill us all?

Is this Death Star headed our way?

Is this Death Star headed our way?

AS stars go, Eta Carinae is big. It’s old. It’s volatile. And it’s about to blow. So will it really cause the next extinction on Earth and kill us all?

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NASA’s giant $425 million flop

NASA’s giant $425 million flop

THEY raced to build a massive testing tower for a space program. But there was a rather important problem, which has left us wondering what on Earth were they thinking.

This NASA photo obtained December 10, 2014 shows from the International Space Station, a photo taken by Expedition 42 Commander Barry Wilmore of the Great Lakes and central US on December 7, 2014. This week on the station, the Expedition 42 crew has been busy with medical science and spacesuit work while preparing for the arrival of SpaceX's Dragon commercial cargo craft, scheduled to launch on December 16, 2014 on a two day trip to the station before it is captured by the Canadarm2 and berthed to the Harmony node. AFP PHOTO/NASA/BARRY WILMORE = RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / MANDATORY CREDIT:

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?

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This artists concept contrasts our familiar Earth with the exceptionally strange planet known as 55 Cancri e. While it is only about twice the size of the Earth, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has gathered surprising new details about this supersized and superheated world. Astronomers first discovered 55 Cancri e in 2004, and continued investigation of the exoplanet has shown it to be a truly bizarre place. The world revolves around its sun-like star in the shortest time period of all known exoplanets just 17 hours and 40 minutes. (In other words, a year on 55 Cancri e lasts less than 18 hours.) The exoplanet orbits about 26 times closer to its star than Mercury, the most Sun-kissed planet in our solar system. Such proximity means that 55 Cancri e's surface roasts at a minimum of 3,200 degrees Fahrenheit (1,760 degrees Celsius). The new observations with Spitzer reveal 55 Cancri e to have a mass 7.8 times and a radius just over twice that of Earth. Those properties place 55 Cancri e in the

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

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.

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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.

This handout picture taken on August 3, 2014 by ESA's space probe Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera and released on August 6, 2014 by the European Space Agency (ESA) shows the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from a distance of 285 km. The space probe Rosetta on August 6, 2014 made a historic rendezvous with the comet, climaxing a 10-year, six-billion-kilometre (3.7-billion-mile) chase through the Solar System, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. In November, a robot scientific lab called Philae will be sent down to the surface to make the first-ever landing on a comet. AFP PHOTO / ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team = RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

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

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.

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

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.

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. The craft's miniature cameras, radio science experiment, ultraviolet and infrared spectrometers and space plasma experiments would characterize the global geology and geomorphology of Pluto and large moon 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. The first spacecraft to ever visit Pluto is set to start up again on December 6,2014 in preparation for its midsummer rendezvous with the solar system’s most famous dwarf planet. AFP PHOTO/NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute (JHUAPL/SwRI)/HANDOUT = RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / MANDATORY CREDIT:

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

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.

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The NASA Orion space capsule atop a Delta IV rocket, in its first unmanned orbital test flight, lifts off from the Space Launch Complex 37B pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

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.

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The strange galaxy far, far away

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's Orion spacecraft, atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket, sits on the launch pad before its first scheduled unmanned orbital test flight from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

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.

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Asteroid impact on Earth

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?

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

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.

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Jaw-dropping vision of life in outer space

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

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?

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How could these stars simply vanish?

How could these stars simply vanish?

A MASSIVE population of stars has disappeared, leaving scientists totally stumped as to where it could have gone.

Man about to be abducted by aliens

‘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

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.

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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.

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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.

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Quasars, as pictured here in this artist's concept, are bright, energetic regions around giant, active black holes in galactic centers. Although immensely powerful and visible across billions of light years, quasars are actually quite tiny, at least compared to an entire galaxy. Quasars span a few light years, and their inner areas casting out high-velocity winds compare roughly in size only to that of our solar system. It takes a beam of light about ten hours to cross that distance. The galaxies that play host to quasars, in contrast, typically span tens of thousands of light years. Surprisingly, the activity in the compact quasar cores is thought to dramatically influence the evolution the surrounding galaxies, and have a significant impact on the properties of massive galaxies seen today. A research team using data from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space telescopes have for the first time found a large sample of galaxies during a key early period of galactic evolution when quasars and their host galaxies begin to interact, but before the two have settled down after recent galactic smashups.

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.

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Dash cam captures huge fireball

Dash cam captures huge fireball

DOES this dash cam footage show an exploding meteor in the skies above Ukraine – or something more sinister?

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Rosetta comet ‘an alien space craft’

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.

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