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| UpdatedAustralians Dianne McGrath and David Mould hope to be among the first astronauts to call the Red Planet home.
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| UpdatedAn asteroid that exploded over Russia, leaving more than 1,000 people injured, had a force almost 30 times as powerful as an atomic bomb, new research shows.
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Scientists have found an Earth-sized world orbiting in a life-friendly zone around a distant star for the first time.
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An executive from America's national space agency is visiting the Gold Coast to meet citizen scientists, computer coders and backyard astronomers to encourage them to share their knowledge with the space agency.
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| UpdatedUS scientists say they have detected echoes of the Big Bang 14 billion years ago, in a major discovery for understanding the origins of the universe.
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An asteroid the size of a football field is about to make a close pass by Earth but is not expected to hit or cause any damage.
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| UpdatedScientists are stumped as to how a rock mysteriously appeared in images taken two weeks apart by NASA's Mars rover Opportunity.
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| UpdatedDr Karl explains how after a close encounter with the sun, ISON failed to put on the show star-gazers hoped for.
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| UpdatedNASA has launched its unmanned MAVEN spacecraft toward Mars to study the Red Planet's atmosphere for clues as to why Earth's neighbour lost its warmth and water over time.
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| UpdatedIn a world first astronomers discover a planet similar to Earth but with a surface temperature of up to 2000 degrees.
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| UpdatedJapanese scientists, readying to blast a crater in an asteroid to find out what it is made of, say they have successfully tested their new space cannon.
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| UpdatedA newly discovered asteroid made a "close" approach this week - at least in astronomical terms - coming within 6.7 million kilometres of Earth.
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Artist Adam Norton is exploring what it would be like to discover the landscape on planet Mars through the rugged outback near Broken Hill for his latest exhibition, The Mars Project. He says the isolation and red dirt make the Silver City an earthly analogue of the red planet.
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| UpdatedThe planet Mars and the rugged outback landscape near Broken Hill might seem like worlds apart but one artist is trying to find the link.
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| UpdatedAstronomers have carried out an autopsy on a distant, broken-apart planet which appears to have once had the right conditions for life.
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| UpdatedArtist's conception of the free-floating planet, dubbed PSO J318.5-22.
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| UpdatedThe newly-discovered exoplanet GJ 504b, 57 light years from Earth and glowing a dark magenta.
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| UpdatedWith its blue hue, this planet could be mistaken for Earth. But on this world, the temperatures exceed 1000C and it rains glass.
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| UpdatedThe sun has unleashed four potent solar flares in just under 24 hours, marking the most intense activity yet this year.
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| UpdatedScientists at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra have found the moving layers of molten rock under the Earth's surface influences the planet's magnetic field.
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Astronomers in Tasmania are hoping this morning's partial solar eclipse will spark a renewed interest in the science.
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