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The US is concealing a longstanding program that retrieves and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects, a former Air Force intelligence officer testified on Wednesday.

The images, captured by Maxar Technologies, show just how vast the area currently being burnt across the European nation is.

An image of Rho Ophiuchi, the closest-star-forming region to Earth has been revealed by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which is a year old this month.

Whatever goes up, must come down, and sometimes that comes with a big price tag.

The Webb Space Telescope is marking one year of cosmic photographs with one of its best yet: the dramatic close-up of dozens of stars at the moment of birth.

It was a bit overcast on much of the east coast as the brightest moon of the year so far rose but the rest of the world gave us a preview a nigh earlier.

Scientists have observed for the first time the faint ripples caused by the motion of black holes that are gently stretching and squeezing everything in the universe.

Mars' landscape is covered with incredible mountain ranges, sand dunes and ice caps.

The study is a first step by the US space agency in trying to explain mysterious sightings in the sky.

The International Space Station has rolled out the welcome mat for two Saudi visitors, including the kingdom's first female astronaut.

Saudi Arabia’s first astronauts in decades have rocketed toward the International Space Station on a chartered multimillion-dollar flight Sunday.

The Perseverance rover has captured new images that appear to reveal geologic evidence of a fast-flowing river that fed into Jezero Crater, the site of an ancient Martian lake.

A major glacier in northwest Greenland is interacting with the ocean tides, scientists reported on Monday, resulting in previously unaccounted-for melting and potentially faster sea level rise.

A bus-sized asteroid will make its way past Earth today, while even larger asteroids are expected to blaze past our planet in the next few days.

A 270kg satellite is on track to crash into Earth sometime in the next day.

NASA has produced a recreation of Mars for four volunteers to live in for a year to help prepare astronauts for exploration of the planet.

NASA has named the four astronauts who will fly around the moon late next year, including the first woman and the first African American assigned to a lunar mission.

An asteroid big enough to wipe out a city will zip harmlessly between Earth and the moon's orbit this weekend, missing both celestial bodies.

They're a big change to the puffy white suits worn on earlier lunar landings.

An asteroid on a possible trajectory to collide with Earth in 23 years time has raced to the top of the European Space Agency's risk list.

The unexpected size of the newly discovered world, called TOI 5205b, has led researchers to call it the "forbidden planet".

The objects appeared so big and bright that some members of the international team, lead by Melbourne's Swinburne University of Technology, thought they had made a mistake.

NASA has identified the site of an ancient lake on Mars, surrounded by mountains they say could have been home to extraterrestrial life forms.

It's now been half a decade since SpaceX turned heads around the world with its decision to launch Elon Musk's personal Tesla roadster into outer space, sending the car on an endless journey into the cosmic wilderness where it's expected to remain for millennia to come.

An asteroid the size of a delivery truck will whip past Earth on Friday morning, one of the closest such encounters ever recorded.

Russia has announced it would launch another Soyuz space craft next month to rescue the crew of the International Space Station.

The celestial bodies are the closest to colliding black holes astronomers have ever observed.

Bright clouds of gas and stellar material put on a show for astronomers before the stars destined death.

The NASA InSight lander was launched in May, 2018, and landed on Mars six months later.

A US-French satellite that will map almost all of the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers has rocketed into orbit.

A towering whirlwind of dust passed right over the Perseverance rover as it explored the site of an ancient lake on Mars.

NASA's Orion capsule made a blisteringly fast return from the moon overnight, parachuting into the Pacific off Mexico to conclude a test flight that should clear the way for astronauts on the next lunar flyby.

A handful of scientists spend an entire winter in the coldest, most inhabitable place on the planet.

In the wee hours of a still night in Canada, an amateur astronomer captured a green streaking fireball. What it would turn out to be would leave him "in shock".

Orion's flight path took it over the landing sites of Apollo 11, 12 and 14 — humanity's first three lunar touchdowns.

If all goes well during the three-week, make-or-break shakedown flight, the rocket will propel an empty crew capsule into a wide orbit around the moon.

When a polar satellite designed to improve weather forecasting launched early Thursday, an experimental heat shield tagged along. It could land humans on Mars.

The hunt for planets that could harbor life may have just narrowed dramatically.

A gay mathematician's convicted murderer is trying to recall his on-the-fly guilty plea in a "uniquely unusual" case, after claiming he did it out of fear his wife would come after him.

Officials at NASA selected a team of 16 scientists and experts who will delve into the mysteries surrounding UFOs.

Thousands of kilometres away from Australia, past New Zealand and tucked away between Antarctica and South America lies a graveyard - but you won't find any human remains there.

Man found dead in Victorian floodwaters; Jury out in Lehrmann trial; Nation's COVID-19 response criticised

Man 'bitten on the head' in WA crocodile attack; 'Mini tornado' preceded Tasmania jumping castle tragedy; Hundreds of schools and early learning centres closed due to floods.

Schools closed, train services down as flooding swamps parts of Victoria; NT mass shooter jailed for life; Qantas projects staggering $1.3b profit

A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said today in announcing the results of its save-the-world test.

Potential chemical leak in Sydney; Two more charged over Brisbane shooting; Australia marks Bali Bombings 20th anniversary.

Victoria's 'worst weather event of the year' to hit; Spectre of recession looms for Australia; Security breaches at Melbourne, Adelaide airports.

Ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of harbouring an underground world teeming with microscopic organisms, French scientists reported Monday.

NSW smashes four weather records in one day; Higgins breaks down in court; Sydney teen tried to blackmail Optus customers; AFL great won't face charges over white powder incident.

Man charged with snatching 11-month-old baby from her home; Wild weather lashing multiple states; Brittany Higgins provides evidence in rape trial