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Green Comet. Picture: Eliot Herman / EarthSky.

Comet to pass by Earth in 50,000 year first

The bright green comet will become visible in the night sky for the first time in 50,000 years. Find out when to see it from Australia.

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“A lot of people were scared of these alien-looking sea monsters,” said Vorster. “It was like ‘Jaws’ — is it safe to go into the water?” Picture: Kennedy News and Media

‘Aliens’ crawling on coast spark panic online

A man sparked hysteria online after many became convinced these photos were “alien-looking sea monsters” emerging from the sea.

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Earth in orbit with asteroids on ESA's 'risk list', using ESA's asteroid orbit visualisation tool. The European Space Agency is asking Australians and others in the southern hemisphere to help it locate what it describes as a “mystery asteroid” approaching Earth. Picture: ESA

‘Mystery’ asteroid headed to earth

The European Space Agency is asking Australians to help it locate what it describes as a “mystery asteroid” approaching Earth tonight.

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‘Stay safe’: Time traveller’s 2023 warning

A time traveller who claims to be from the year 2983, has revealed when humans will first meet aliens and it’s sooner than we think.

The West Australian Space Radar (WASR) will add another net to a growing web of radars tracking the behaviour of objects in orbit. Picture: LeoLabs

‘Disaster’: Disturbing new trend in space race

China’s latest moves in the space race may be setting a disturbing “new normal” that could be very bad news for the rest of us.

A handout picture released by the European Space Agency (ESA) on July 11, 2019 shows an artist’s impression of the peculiar thin disc of material circling a supermassive black hole at the heart of the spiral galaxy NGC 3147, located 130 million light-years away. - Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed an unexpected thin disc of material encircling a supermassive black hole at the heart of the spiral galaxy NGC 3147, located 130 million light-years away. The presence of the black hole disc in such a low-luminosity active galaxy has astronomers surprised. Black holes in certain types of galaxies such as NGC 3147 are considered to be starving as there is insufficient gravitationally captured material to feed them regularly (Photo by HO / ESA/Hubble / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Scientists ‘grow black hole in lab’

A black hole is an invisible place in space where gravity pulls so intensely that even light cannot escape it.

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Moment rare ‘solar snake’ slithers across sun

A “snakelike” figure has been spotted slithering around the sun’s surface, and the ESA has released incredible footage of the event.

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Expert thinks ‘alien device’ crashed near Aus

A Harvard professor believes an alien spacecraft may have crashed near Australia – and he’s going to search the ocean floor for the wreckage.

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This handout picture provided by The History Channel on November 10, 2022 shows underwater explorer and marine biologist Mike Barnette and wreck diver Jimmy Gadomski exploring a twenty-foot segment of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger discovered in the waters off the coast of Florida during the filming of the new series âThe Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Watersâ. - Divers searching for a World War II-era aircraft in the Bermuda Triangle have found a piece of an entirely different sort of vessel: part of the US Challenger space shuttle that exploded after takeoff in 1986. The shuttle exploded several dozen seconds after launching from Florida, causing the death of seven crew members, including the teacher Christa McAuliffe who had won a national screening. (Photo by Handout / The History Channel / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Space wreckage found in Bermuda Triangle

Divers went looking for WWII aircraft wreckage off the Florida coastline. But what they found was a whole different story.

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2021 Cochlear Aurora Photo Contest entries - Effect of Reflection super blood moon - Emily Faggotter Gleeson College

Last chance to glimpse rare ‘blood moon’

Lucky skygazers have been treated to a rare blood moon that graced Australian skies and have shared remarkable images of its beauty.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory previously caught an image of the sun in ultraviolet light with three dark spots on its surface on October 26, giving the illusion the sun was smiling. Picture: @NASASun/Twitter

NASA snaps incredible ‘smiling’ sun pic

Despite its seemingly “sunny” appearance, it turns out that NASA’s recent image of the grinning sun isn’t as cheery as it looks.

Artist's impression of 400m wide asteroid, called 2005 YU55, which will pass by the Earth and the moon, missing us by just 324,600km.

Massive asteroid flying close to Earth

A massive asteroid almost the size of the world’s tallest building will fly past Earth, with NASA considering it “potentially dangerous” due to how close it will come.

Screengrabs from the documentary Moment of Contact by filmmaker James Fox about the 1996 Varginha UFO incident in Brazil. Source: 1091 Pictures

Bizarre UFO case sparks alien video rumours

An alleged UFO case dubbed “Brazil’s Roswell” has set the internet abuzz amid rumours video of a captured “creature” may exist.

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The images were shared to Reddit. Picture: Google Maps

‘Strange dots’ appear in Australian outback

An ominous discovery on Google Maps has sparked furious debate about mysterious markings on Australian soil.

Binar-1 is a class of spacecraft called a cubesat, designed for standardised racks and launchers that make spacecraft cheaper and easier to deploy.

‘New era’: Aussie spaceship returns

An Australian spacecraft has become a fireball after travelling 250 million kilometres through space.

(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 10, 2022, Elon Musk speaks during a press conference at SpaceX's Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas. - Elon Musk has sold nearly $7 billion worth of Tesla shares, according to legal filings, amid a high-stakes court battle with Twitter over a $44 billion buyout deal. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP)

Elon Musk reacts to NASA’s asteroid collision

The world’s chief rocket launcher had a hilarious reaction to a NASA spacecraft crashing into an asteroid.

The fake meteor hit a road near Corpus Christi Catholic School.

Awkward detail in school meteorite landing

A “meteor landing” at an Australian school has sent thousands into a panic, forcing emergency services to make an important clarification.

Wild September 24 doomsday conspiracy goes viral on TikTok.

Wild September 24 doomsday conspiracy

A conspiracy theory has gone viral on TikTok, suggesting there will be a world-ending solar flare on September 24.

UFO spotted after storm. Picture: Juan Manuel Sanchez/Facebook.

UFO spotted after storm causes a stir

Photos showing a round silver UFO have caused a stir after they emerged in Mexico and were shown on national news TV.

After technical issues halted its first launch attempt, NASA will try again to get its new 30-story rocket off the ground and send its unmanned test capsule towards the Moon.

Moon mission launch delayed again

The launch of NASA’s Moon rocket has been halted after engineers detected a fuel leak and a sensor showed that one of its engines was too hot.

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A NASA helicopter flies past the agencyâs Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B, on August 29, 2022, as the launch countdown progresses at NASAâs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. - NASA called off the test flight on Monday of its largest-ever Moon rocket because of a temperature issue with one of the four giant engines. (Photo by Joel KOWSKY / NASA / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Mission to the Moon stopped at last moment

NASA’s biggest ever rocket was all set to blast off – but a last-minute problem derailed it at the eleventh hour.

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Crucial NASA mission to launch in hours

Crucial NASA mission to launch in hours

A rocket test said to be the “final step” before humans can again walk the moon and beyond will launch today. Here’s what you need to know.

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’Dinosaur killer’s cousin’ discovered

Scientists have dubbed a newly-discovered crater the “Dinosaur Killer’s Cousin”.

The legendary Calvine Photograph showing a UFO and a warplane has been revealed after 30 years. Picture: UAP MEDIA UK

‘World’s best’ UFO image seen for first time

For more than 30 years, the “elusive” picture has remained a secret, yet it forms one of the “biggest mysteries” in UFO history.

The Hubble telescope captured a never before seen phenomenon after red supergiant Betelgeuse experienced a titanic mass ejection of its surface. Picture: NASA / ESA

‘Titanic’ stellar eruption captured by Hubble

One of the brightest stars in our sky just gave an almighty titanic “sneeze” – ejecting mass 400 billion times that of a solar flare.

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A large full moon, known as a “Supermoon”, is seen behind a building in Tokyo April 8, 2020. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)

Last chance to witness stunning lunar event

As the end of winter looms, sky gazers are being urged to keep an eye out for a truly spectacular lunar event.

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Where bizarre object in paddock came from

The Australian Space Agency has confirmed the origins of a bizarre object found on a farmer’s property in southern NSW.

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‘Devastating’: Earth is spinning too fast

Scientists have been left baffled after discovering the Earth is spinning faster than normal – making days shorter than usual.

Experts had offered reassurance that the rocket was unlikely to cause any harm. Picture: Twitter

Incredible video of rocket hurtling to Earth

Footage appears to show the moment an out-of-control Chinese rocket crash-landed and space debris “lit up the night sky” over Malaysia.

NIEDERHOLLABRUNN, AUSTRIA - APRIL 21: (EDITORS NOTE: Multiple exposures were combined to produce this image.) Startrails are seen during the Lyrids meteor shower over Michaelskapelle on April 21, 2020 in Niederhollabrunn, Austria. The clear skies created by the New Moon coincide with the Lyrid meteor shower, an annual display caused by the Earth passing through a cloud of debris from a comet called C/186 Thatcher. (Photo by Thomas Kronsteiner/Getty Images)

Best time to watch rare meteor showers

With a rare celestial display hours away from lighting up our skies, here is how to make sure you don’t miss it.

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