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This artist's concept provided by NASA April 18, 2013, depicts NASA's Kepler misssion's smallest habitable zone planet. Seen in the foreground is Kepler-62f, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star smaller and cooler than the sun, located about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. Kepler-62f orbits it's host star every 267 days and is roughly 40 percent larger than Earth in size. The size of Kepler-62f is known, but its mass and composition are not. However, based on previous exoplanet discoveries of similar size that are rocky, scientists are able to determine its mass by association. Much like our solar system, Kepler-62 is home to two habitable zone worlds. The small shining object seen to the right of Kepler-62f is Kepler-62e. Orbiting on the inner edge of the habitable zone, Kepler-62e is roughly 60 percent larger than Earth. AFP PHOTO / HANDOUT / NASA Ames / JPL-Caltech / T. Pyle == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / MANDATORY CREDIT:

The best contenders for Earth 2.0

THE search for a second Earth has gathered pace, with NASA detailing the hunt for new planets capable of sustaining life.

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Full Earth from space showing Australia. World globe. Thinkstock

North and south poles set to flip

BAD news for Santa! The north and south poles are on the move, and the north pole could become the south pole and the south pole the north pole.

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The destination for a historic mission ... The comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Picture: European Space Agency

10-year space trip nears end

AFTER 10 years and nearly seven billion kilometres spent circling the solar system, a spacecraft will finally meet its destination — a comet.

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01/11/2006 WIRE: NASA pic released 31/10/06 shows a superdense neutron star left behind by the stars' death over a thousand years ago, now seen spewing out a blizzard of extremely high-energy particles into the expanding debris field known as the Crab Nebula. This composite image shows The Chandra X-ray image in light blue, the Hubble Space Telescope optical images in green and dark blue, and the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared image in red. - space astronomy

Mystery over sounds from space

A TELESCOPE in Puerto Rico has confirmed what Australian astronomers have known for a while: There are mysterious signals coming from another galaxy.

Bright object streaks through sky

Bright object streaks through sky

A BRIGHT light described as “like a big ball with a shiny tail” has been spotted shooting across the sky above Australia.

Buzz Aldrin On Moon in 1969. Photo: NASA

‘There is life somewhere in space’

BUZZ Aldrin says aliens exist, Sandra Bullock deserved an Oscar and we need to get to Mars. Oh, and his mum’s maiden name is awesome.

Mystery ‘blob’ emits cosmic rays

Mystery ‘blob’ emits cosmic rays

SCIENTISTS in the US are studying what they say is a mysterious “hot spot” in the sky that’s emitting an unusual amount of cosmic rays.

This company will have the first ad on the moon

This company will have the first ad on the moon

THE moon will soon have its first advertisement, slated for delivery in 2015 by one crazy Japanese company.

Is this the weirdest job in the world?

Is this the weirdest job in the world?

THIS man has been working for NASA for nearly 40 years. He isn’t an astronaut or engineer, no, he is something very odd. He sniffs everything.

Gravity sandra bullock and george clooney

Mars mission ‘cost less than Gravity’

INDIA says it’s sending a rocket to Mars for less money than it cost to make blockbuster sci-fi film Gravity.

‘Flying saucer’ splashes down

‘Flying saucer’ splashes down

NASA has successfully tested a “flying saucer” packed with technology that could be used to one day land on Mars. So technically, it’s an IFO.

Simon Wong is Australia's No 1 contributor for the search of alien life with organisation called SETI@Home. Picture: Adam Taylor

Australian alien hunters total 34K

EXCLUSIVE: There are 34,000 people in Australia who dedicate about 85 million computer hours a year in a search for aliens who arrive on UFOs.

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Barista boost to revive space crew

Barista boost to revive space crew

THIS Italian barista really is out of this world. She’s being sent to the space station to give it a bit of a jolt. Her challenge: 16 mornings each day.

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That’s awkward: we don’t exist

IT took $10 billion and decades of research, but now scientists are convinced: The universe doesn’t exist. Or at least it shouldn’t.

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Dark matter

Mysterious signal could be dark matter

ASTRONOMERS think an unidentfied X-ray signal found 240 million light years from Earth could be dark matter.

Saturn’s moon mystery solved?

Saturn’s moon mystery solved?

THEY call it the magic island and it is one of the most surprising recent discoveries humans have made in our solar system.

This is how a star dies

This is how a star dies

GLOWING, glowing, gone: The stunning death of star V838 Monocretis is caught by NASA on Hubble Space Telescope.

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These images obtained from NASA June 11,2014 shows three X-class flares as they erupted from the left side of the sun on June 10-11, 2014. These images are from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and show light in a blend of two ultraviolet wavelengths: 171 and 131 angstroms. The former is colorized in yellow; the latter, in red. On June 11, 2014, the sun erupted with its third X-class flare in two days. The flare was classified as an X1.0 and it peaked at 5:06 a.m. EDT. Images of the flare were captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. All three flares originated from an active region on the sun that recently rotated into view over the left limb of the sun. AFP PHOTO/NASA/SDO/ HANDOUT = RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Will Earth flare-up on Friday the 13th?

FORGET Y2K and these asteroids that just keep missing us. This is serious. Your mobile phone could stop working today. Maybe.

Bold vision or going nowhere?

Bold vision or going nowhere?

THIS is possibly the best look yet at what NASA believes will be the spacecraft that will take us to the stars.

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This NASA infrared image obtained on May 29, 2014 combines data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope with shorter-wavelength observations from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS).At a distance of around 750 light-years, these young stars reside within the confines of the constellation Serpens, or the

Our galaxy’s 100 million ‘new homes’

WANT to skip Earth? Well, scientists say there are four life-capable planets in our galaxy for every living Australian. That’s 100 million worlds.

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Earth and Moon with stars in the background.

Earth actually older than we think

PLANET Earth is showing no signs of old age despite scientists discovering it’s actually 60 million years more mature than we initially believed.

Asteroid

The Beast: Asteroid big enough to wipe out a city

A HUGE asteroid is going to sideswipe Earth today. If it was to make impact, it would leave a crater nearly 5 kilometres across, and shatter windows 100km away. But don’t panic just yet.

This infrared image shows the dust ring around the nearby star HR 4796A in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It was one of the first produced by the SPHERE instrument soon after it was installed on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in May 2014. It shows not only the ring itself with great clarity, but also reveals the power of SPHERE to reduce the glare from the very bright star — the key to finding and studying exoplanets in future.

Evil eye watching from the heavens

IT’S the disembodied icon of evil in film and literature — and it has been found in space by scientists hunting for Earth-like planets.

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This June 2, 2014 handout provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, shows the newly discovered 'mega-Earth' Kepler-10c dominating the foreground in this artist's conception. Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background. Both orbit a sunlike star. Astronomers announced June 2, 2014 that they have discovered a new type of planet -- a rocky world weighing 17 times as much as Earth. Theorists believed such a world couldn't form because anything so hefty would grab hydrogen gas as it grew and become a Jupiter-like gas giant. This planet, though, is all solids and much bigger than previously discovered 'super-Earths,' making it a 'mega-Earth.' AFP PHOTO / HANDOUT /Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics / David A. Aguilar (CfA) == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE, MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION, TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION ==

‘Mega Earth’ discovered in space

THE ‘Godzilla’ of all Earths has been spotted by telescopes and weighs in 17 times heavier than our planet. But what does this exciting discovery mean?

Spectacular ... sun flares erupt off the sun's corona - its outermost and hottest layer. Picture: NASA

Solar flares erupt from the sun

FOOTAGE of a gigantic eruption of solar flares surging off the sun has been captured for the first time by NASA.

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How astronauts workout in space

How astronauts workout in space

WITH no Fitness First around the corner astronauts have to sweat at this space gym where they have to go hard to keep their muscles from withering away.

China’s moon rover still alive

China’s moon rover still alive

CHINA’S troubled Jade Rabbit moon rover is still alive after more than five months on the moon, but is heading for an icy death.

The bright sun greets the International Space Station in this Nov. 22 scene from the Russian section of the orbital outpost, photographed by one of the STS-129 crew members. Image credit: NASA..

Black hole could be the Bermuda Triangle of space

JUST above Brazil, there’s a region in space where space computers crash and astronauts see strange flashes of light. Is this the Bermuda Triangle of space?

NASA’s ‘alien message’ takedown

NASA’s ‘alien message’ takedown

IS this evidence of first contact? UFO aficionados are in a spin after NASA appeared to suggest ancient rock art was planted by aliens.

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Island’s mystery glow revealed

Island’s mystery glow revealed

THESE bizarre lights filled the skies over Hawaii, terrifying residents and titillating UFO watchers. But the US Government reckons they are anything but strange.

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