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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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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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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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| UpdatedUsing samples collected by the Apollo 14 moon mission, scientists estimate the Moon is much older than previously thought and likely formed more than 4.5 billion years ago.
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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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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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| UpdatedMarianne Begg and Kay Ball remember the Murchison meteorite
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| UpdatedIn 1969 the Murchison meteorite fell on a small town in rural Victoria and nearly half a century on, it continues to dazzle scientists.
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| UpdatedPioneering astronomer Vera Rubin, whose research into the rotation of galaxies helped find powerful evidence of dark matter, dies aged 88.
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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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| UpdatedIn the southern hemisphere, the summer solstice marks the longest day of the year. But this does not coincide with the earliest sunrise or latest sunset time. We explain why.
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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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