All news on the topic: Space

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Spot four times the size of Earth appears on sun and can be seen with naked eye
South Korean astronomer Bum-Suk Yeom has published an image of a huge sunspot that can be seen from Earth with a naked eye - but anyone who wants to look has been warned to use eclipse glasses
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Man finds meteorite weighing 8lbs in his garden - and it's worth a huge £175,000
Mahmut Sahin could barely believe it when the 4.5 billion-year-old space rock crashed into his yard in the town of Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein State, Germany
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London to Sydney to take two hours as new passenger flight will go via space
The Civil Aviation Authority is working with King's College London and the RAF to see how normal people respond to g-force pressure required to get from London to Sydney, Australia via space
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Astronomers spot cosmic explosion that is largest and brightest ever seen
Scientists led by the University of Southampton have spotted explosion AT2021lwx, which occurred nearly eight billion light years away
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Family's horror as 5billion-years-old meteorite crashes through roof still warm
The suspected meteorite smashed through the roof of a New Jersey home, ricocheted around a room before being discovered among the debris by the baffled homeowner
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Moment black hole blasts out a giant mysterious jet seen for the very first time
The image captures the precise moment the astrophysical jet moving at nearly the speed of light connects to matter swirling around the hole before being sucked in
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Watch moment Elon Musk's $3bn Space X Mars rocket explodes in take-off
Elon Musk's Starship is set to launch today - watch LIVE as the £2.4billion Space X Mars rocket - the biggest and most powerful every built - takes off in its historic maiden voyage, the first step in taking humans to Mars
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Mystery surrounds bright flash in Kyiv sky after NASA denies it is satellite
Kyiv's military adviser Sergiy Popko said a bright flash was seen over the Ukrainian capital at around 10pm, but it has not yet been established what caused the glow
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Solar eclipse throws town into darkness for 60 seconds in rare phenomenon
Sky gazers along the Exmouth Peninsular of Western Australia were amazed by the solar eclipse when the sun was completely covered by the moon, casting a 25-mile shadow
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ITV 'planning new reality show with celebs forced to live in a space station'
Stars In Mars will see a string of celebrities competing against each other in challenges and a public vote in conditions that will be comparable to life on Mars
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NASA finds dragon bone-like structure on Mars with strange images causing stir
The Mars rover has photographed strange objects that appear to stick out of the rocks of the Red Planet, leading some to believe that dinosaurs once walked its surface
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'Monster' black hole is ripping through the universe at huge speeds, NASA warns
NASA experts say an invisible supermassive back hole is rampaging through the universe, but instead of destroying everything in its path, it is creating new stars
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Astronomers discover four oldest galaxies born 500million years after Big Bang
Astronomers have spotted four of the oldest galaxies ever discovered which are believed to date back to the earliest days of the known universe, created after just 300million years
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NASA's Mars helicopter breaks speed and height records after years on Red Planet
Ingenuity is one of NASA's Sample Recovery Helicopters, a backup retrieval system for Mars Sample Return. Samples would be studied to search for signs of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet
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'Coherent' signal detected coming from alien planet sparking new hopes for life
American astronomers have named the rocky exoplanet 'YZ Ceti b' - claiming it is a prime candidate for having an Earth-like magnetic field which could provide vital answers in man's search for alien life
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Nasa's ambitious plan to get humans on Mars in just 45 days in 'next giant leap'
NASA's ambitious "Moon to Mars Program Office" office was unveiled at their headquarters in Washington, US, yesterday which aims to get the first humans to Mars in just 45 days
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Five planets set to line up with Moon this week in rare 'planetary parade'
A spectacular 'celestial treat' will be served up for stargazers just after sunset tonight as five planets appear in a straight line alongside the Moon in the sky
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Scientists finally solve puzzle of 'alien spaceship' in sky with unusual shape
Back in 2017, when 'Oumuamua was first discovered, it was seen moving away from the Sun, which led scientists puzzled, while some thought it could be signs of an alien spaceship
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Blood, spit and potatoes could be used to build houses on Mars - scientists say
Potato housing on Mars sounds like bad science fiction but it could be a reality according to researchers who have invented StarCrete - concrete made from starch
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Giant tide of seaweed visible from space threatening beaches with grim smell
A giant tide of seaweed known as 'sargassum' that is visible from space is threatening beaches in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. The huge bulk is getting larger every year and can have negative impacts on tourism and local ecosystems
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Aliens exist as 'no way' humans only life form, says UK's space exploration boss
Head of Space Exploration in the UK, Libby Jackson, is convinced that there are aliens in the universe and that we will have "more answers" in the coming years but says there is no way we are the only "life form"
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Mysterious 'heartbeat' coming from thousands of miles above the sun's surface
Experts at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) detected one signal about 3,100 miles above the molten surface of the our sun, and believed it's produced by a C-class solar flare
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Supermassive black hole lurking at edge of universe one of biggest ever detected
The supermassive black hole contains over a billion solar masses worth of interstellar dust and lies at the centre of an extreme galaxy and dates back over 13 billion years
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Plans to grow food on the moon - just like Matt Damon did in The Martian
Shoppers in the UK may be struggling to get their hands on fresh fruit and veg right now but the surface of Moon could soon have a thriving selection with a futuristic lunar farm, scientists claim
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New two-person cabin will let you visit space without a billionaire's budget
Japanese startup Iwaya Giken has developed an airtight two-seat cabin and a balloon capable of rising up to an altitude of 15 miles, where the curve of the Earth can be clearly viewed