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D-Day for astronomers with Comet Ison just hours away from perihelion.

Expert says meteor shower from Comet Ison will provide a time travel capsule from outer space.

Astronomer says latest figures suggest Comet Ison will not make it around the Sun.

Astronomers anxious to find out if Comet Ison survives encounter with sun.

Nasa satellites capture blast of light from dying star.

Storm building up in Bay of Bengal with 90km/h winds expected to intensify.

Oxford Dictionaries chooses 'selfie' as word of 2013 ahead of 'twerk', 'binge-watch', 'schmeat' and 'showrooming'.

Horn of Africa lashed by heavy rains - hundreds of people missing.

Malala Yousafzai and Lady Gaga are among the winners of Glamour Women of the Year Awards 2013. Check winners' full list here.

Video report on Typhoon Yolanda by ABS-CBN News journalist goes viral on internet

Engineers claim super-fast jet could streak attain hypersonic speeds of Mach 6.

Russian Cosmonauts carry Olympic torch on first-ever spacewalk ahead of Sochi Winter Games

An unexplained sphere described by Nasa as 'weird and freakish' with shooting jets of matter was spotted in the solar system.

Superstorm Yolanda kills at least four in central Philippines before moving out to South China Sea.

P/2013 P5 was born 200 million years ago but has only just been captured by Pan-Starrs and Hubble Telescope.

Typhoon Haiyan due to hit capital of Manila as Philippines braces for fourth superstorm of year.

ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission will lift off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in southeast India at 2:38 p.m local time (4:08 a.m. EST, 0908 GMT).

'Most interesting eclipse of the year' captured on film.

Eclipse can be seen from eastern North America, northern South America, southern Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Spitzer Space Telescope captures images of disintegrating remains of dying stars

Briton arrested on charges of hacking into US military and government networks.

Alma telescope photographs spooky object in a part of space where temperatures reach minus 270c.

Hubble telescope captures galaxy z8-GND-5296 as it was 700 million years after the Big Bang.

Earth to get early warning system for asteroid strikes when £800m telescope is launched by the European Space Agency next month.

Discovery in Ukraine of 2013 TV135 has NASA scientists calculating chances of disaster

England boss gets universal backing over joke to black winger Andros Townsend which tarnished World Cup 2014 achievement

Jamie Redknapp says Roy Hodgson will feel betrayed after being accused of racism by a member of the England team

Anti-racism campaign Kick It Out demands answers from the Football Association

England manager was talking about NASA but sparked a race row instead

Gravity is a spectacular space drama that exceeds the outer limits of what cinema had previously achieved.