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Astronauts: Houston We Have A Problem (Picture: supplied)

Nasa is accepting applications for new astronauts who will 'blaze the trail to Mars'

World December 11, 2019 By Harry Readhead

This video showing awe-inspiring views of Earth from space will blow your tiny mind

World December 11, 2019 By Olivia Waring

NASA has published the clearest photos of Pluto to date

World February 16, 2016 By Nicholas Reilly

An asteroid skimmed Earth and looked just like a skull

World November 1, 2015 By Jen Mills

This artist's rendering provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows an asteroid slowly disintegrating as it orbits a white dwarf star. On Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced they have discovered a rocky object coming apart in a death spiral around a white dwarf star in the Constellation Virgo. They used NASA's Kepler spacecraft to make the discovery, then followed up with ground observations. (Mark A. Garlick/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics via AP)

A Nasa probe discovers a planet literally being torn apart

World December 11, 2019 By Harry Readhead

Spaceship full of really angry aliens is spotted on Pluto by NASA probe

News December 11, 2019 By Matt Payton

Impact of a 10 km Killer Asteroid

An asteroid has just zipped past Earth

World December 11, 2019 By Jimmy Nsubuga

Leaked ‘NASA footage’ shows a manned mission to Mars in 1973

News February 16, 2016 By Rob Waugh

A handout image made available by NASA on September 27, 2015, shows dark, narrow, 100 meter-long streaks called recurring slope lineae flowing downhill on Mars, inferred to have been formed by contemporary flowing water. Recently, planetary scientists detected hydrated salts on these slopes at Hale crater, corroborating their original hypothesis that the streaks are indeed formed by liquid water. The blue color seen upslope of the dark streaks are thought not to be related to their formation, but instead are from the presence of the mineral pyroxene. AFP PHOTO /NASA/JPL/UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA ==RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO /NASA/JPL/UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENT - AFP IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DIGITAL ALTERATIONS TO THE PICTURE'S EDITORIAL CONTENT, DATE AND LOCATION ==-/AFP/Getty Images

Nasa scientists: We have detected flowing water on Mars

World December 11, 2019 By Harry Readhead

Nasa's big secret: We're about to find out something about Mars

News December 11, 2019 By Richard Hartley-Parkinson

Video of Veil Nebula is mesmerising Credit: NASA

Nothing to see here, just the explosion of a star 20 times the size of our sun

World December 11, 2019 By Nicole Morley

CREDIT: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Rex Mandatory Credit: Photo by NASA/REX Shutterstock (5068896b) This synthetic perspective view of Pluto, based on the latest high-resolution images to be downlinked from NASA?s New Horizons spacecraft, shows what you would see if you were approximately 1,100 miles (1,800 kilometers) above Pluto?s equatorial area, looking northeast over the dark, cratered, informally named Cthulhu Regio toward the bright, smooth, expanse of icy plains informally called Sputnik Planum. The entire expanse of terrain seen in this image is 1,100 miles (1,800 kilometers) across. The images were taken as New Horizons flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015, from a distance of 50,000 miles (80,000 kilometers) Pluto Images from NASA's New Horizons - 10 Sep 2015 New close-up images of Pluto from NASA?s New Horizons spacecraft reveal a bewildering variety of surface features that have scientists reeling because of their range and complexity. New Horizons began its yearlong download of new images and other data over the Labor Day weekend. Images downlinked in the past few days have more than doubled the amount of Pluto?s surface seen at resolutions as good as 400 meters (440 yards) per pixel. They reveal new features as diverse as possible dunes, nitrogen ice flows that apparently oozed out of mountainous regions onto plains, and even networks of valleys that may have been carved by material flowing over Pluto?s surface. They also show large regions that display chaotically jumbled mountains reminiscent of disrupted terrains on Jupiter?s icy moon Europa.

New detailed photos of Pluto show complexity of terrain

World September 19, 2015 By Alex Hudson

These are the clearest photos of the cosmos ever taken by NASA

World December 11, 2019 By Nicholas Reilly

Floating spoon found on mars Credit: NASA

Now a 'floating spoon' has been spotted on Mars

Weird December 11, 2019 By Oliver Wheaton

Three hurricanes are raging across the Pacific Ocean

World December 11, 2019 By Harry Readhead

NASA are loving Sir Ridley Scott's The Martian starring Matt Damon

Film December 11, 2019 By Hanna Flint

Incredible new picture shows dark side of the moon

World December 11, 2019 By Matt Payton

Embargoed to 1100 Wednesday August 5 Undated European Southern Observatory (ESO) handout photo of the Southern Owl Nebula, a dying star astronomers obtained using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in northern Chile. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday August 5, 2015. See PA story SCIENCE Nebula. Photo credit should read: ESO/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Massive blue space bubble is actually a 'ghost' of a star

News December 11, 2019 By Richard Hartley-Parkinson

Asteroid and Earth

A fancy asteroid worth £3 trillion is zooming past Earth this weekend

Tech December 11, 2019 By Nicole Morley

Pluto is pictured in this July 7, 2015 handout image from New Horizonsí Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI). The image has been combined with lower-resolution color information from the Ralph instrument. This image ó the most detailed yet returned by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard New Horizons -- has been combined with lower-resolution color information from the Ralph instrument. REUTERS/NASA-JHUAPL-SWRI/Handout via Reuters THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS

It turns out Pluto isn't actually blue (or grey)

World December 11, 2019 By Jimmy Nsubuga