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| UpdatedNASA marks the 50th anniversary of its Moon program's fatal Apollo launch pad fire with the first public display of the scorched hatch that trapped three astronauts inside their spaceship during a routine pre-launch test.
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Students from 12 nations successfully launch monitoring equipment — and grape seeds — into the stratosphere over the weekend.
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Construction of the powerful Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope, which is being built to look back through billions of years of the universe's history, is on the "home straight".
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Hundreds of believers in life beyond Earth attended the Close Encounters Conference in Byron Bay.
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Apollo astronaut Captain Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, is remembered as a "patriot and pioneer" following the 82-year-old's death on Tuesday (AEDT).
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SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket for the first time since a fireball engulfed a similar rocket on a Florida launch pad more than four months ago.
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| UpdatedSpaceX carries out its first mission since a fiery explosion destroyed one of its rockets in September last year, launching a Falcon 9 rocket and successfully landing it on a platform in the Pacific Ocean.
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Aerospace company SpaceX is set to launch its first rocket in California tomorrow since an explosion destroyed the unmanned rocket and its payload in September last year.
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| UpdatedNASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures an image two gas-rich spiral galaxies that approached each other too closely and are destructively merging into one.
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| UpdatedThe European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile will be modified to allow it to search for potentially habitable planets in the nearest star system to Earth.
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| UpdatedAustralia is seen from Mars in a new image released by NASA of Earth and its moon, taken from the red planet about 205 million kilometres away.
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Astronomers say highly energetic bursts of radio waves found emitted from deep space came from a dwarf galaxy billions of light years away, a game-changing breakthrough that could help us understand what is in the voids between galaxies.
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| UpdatedThis year could see China expand its presence in space amid the ongoing race for space tourism and search for dark matter and life-supporting planets, a space flight analyst says.
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NASA unveils its concept for houses on Mars, a structure designed to both feel like home and provide protection from the harsh environment — and made of ice.
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China's space program must help protect the country's national security, but the country opposes a space arms race, the Chinese Government says in a newly released policy paper.
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Piers Sellers, a scientist and former NASA astronaut who became a warrior against climate change and "devoted his life to saving the planet", dies at 61.
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| UpdatedIt was a big year in science — with tremendous advances in our understanding of the world around us from the ancient universe to the future of artificial intelligence and designer genes. See how well you do at our quiz recapping the weird and wonderful year in science.
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Water untouched for two billion years is found three kilometres underground in Canada, making it the oldest water in the world.
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Astrophysicist Alan Duffy explains a new project between NASA and an Israeli artist to create the first piece of space art.
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| UpdatedNASA teams up with an Israeli artist to create the first piece of "space art" — 3D-printed laughter — that will be launched into orbit next year.
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| UpdatedA Japanese rocket containing 100 experiments created by Australian high school students for astronauts from NASA to test is on its way to the International Space Station.
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Decorated fighter pilot in two wars, pioneering supersonic pilot and America's first man in space, John Glenn, has died aged 95.
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