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Dinosaurs couldn't stop a killer asteroid - can humans?

NASA: Prove we're smarter than the dinosaurs

NASA has called on the public to help them find asteriods that could end the human race.

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Curiosity and its Lego imitator - but which is which?

Curiosity gets the Lego treatment

Don't have $2.5 billion to build your own Mars rover? Then Lego has just the thing for you.

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Vladimir Putin (R) decorates Valentina Tereshkova (Reuters)

50 years since historic space flight

It was another Soviet first in space 50 years ago - putting a woman in orbit.

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The 'alien' was made of ordinary Earth materials

Man jailed for out-of-this-world lies video

Police in eastern China have detained a farmer for making up and spreading a story about killing an extra-terrestrial.

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A Chinese spacecraft blasted off to begin the country's fifth and longest manned space mission

Chinese craft blasts into space video

A Chinese spacecraft blasted off to begin the country's fifth and longest manned space mission, taking three astronauts to an orbiting space lab.

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Tiangong 1 ready for launch in 2011 (Reuters)

China marks decade of spaceflight

China is turning its attention to sending a rover to the moon.

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Justin Bieber, in space

Justin Bieber... in space?

Pop sensation Justin Bieber is set to take his stardom to a higher level after signing up for a trip into space.

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Mt Sharp (NASA)

Curiosity begins mountain trek

Ten months after Curiosity's Mars landing, the NASA rover is finally about to pack up and head toward the base of a mountain.

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Technicians work on the payload fairing that will protect NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (Reuters)

NASA's next satellite to study the sun

NASA is preparing to launch its latest sun-monitoring satellite on a mission to improve space weather prediction.

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The 'rat' (top) and 'lizard' (below)

'Rat' and 'lizard' spotted on Mars

First there was the infamous face on Mars, followed by the woman and the gorilla. Now there's the rat and the lizard.

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A map showing the asteroid's path

Visiting asteroid has its own moon video

A smaller moon asteroid is circling the larger space rock, an unusual but not unheard of space phenomenon.

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The Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft (Reuters)

Soyuz blasts off to ISS

A Soyuz carrying an American, Russian and Italian blasted off Wednesday for a six-hour trip to the International Space Station.

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NASA is under White House orders to fly humans to an asteroid

Asteroid mission to feature ion jets

Engineers are developing a thruster that relies on ion propulsion instead of conventional chemical fuel.

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Leonardo DiCaprio (AAP)

Fan buys space flight with DiCaprio

One lucky bidder has won an out-of-this world experience to join Leonardo DiCaprio onboard the Virgin Galactic voyage into orbit after laying down US$1.5 million during an auction at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip2 (AAP)

Eight rich Kiwis book space travel

Eight rich New Zealanders are among hundreds globally queuing for space travel on Virgin's world-first commercial space service.

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The Virgin Galactic ship (AAP)

Kiwi ready for dream space flight

A Kiwi business consultant looks set to achieve a lifelong dream.

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Alice Eve in Star Trek Into Darkness

Star Trek star says aliens visit Earth

British actress Alice Eve is convinced NASA experts are hiding discoveries of alien life.

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QE2's orbit (NASA)

Massive asteroid to narrowly miss Earth

An asteroid large enough to cause a mass extinction will fly close by the Earth at the start of next month.

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Curiosity on Mars (NASA)

Curiosity drills another hole

Curiosity has bored a hole in a second rock.

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Major Tim Peak

UK's first official astronaut to fly in 2015 video

A former military helicopter pilot will become the first official British astronaut to go into space.

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