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The Artemis I mission marks the start of a new space race to mine the Moon

Image: NASA / Joel Kowsky NASA plans to launch the Artemis I lunar mission this Saturday, September 3, after a first attempt earlier in the week was cancelled...

After 45 years, the 5-billion-year legacy of the Voyager 2 interstellar probe is just beginning

Image: NASA / JPL On August 20 1977, 45 years ago, an extraordinary spacecraft left this planet on a journey like no other. Voyager 2 was going...

Space debris is coming down more frequently. What are the chances it could hit someone or damage property?

Image: Brad Tucker, Author provided In the past week alone, we’ve seen two separate incidents of space debris hurtling back to Earth in unexpected places. On Saturday...

Australia wants a space industry. So why won’t we pay for the basic research to drive it?

Image: Australian Space Agency In the past few years, Australia has formed its own space agency and launched a defence “space command”. Billions of dollars for defence,...

We’re launching Australia’s first scratch-built satellite, and it’s a giant leap towards the Moon

  Picture:Curtin University, Author provided   On August 28, a SpaceX rocket will blast off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying supplies bound for the International...

Is the truth out there? How the Harvard-based Galileo Project will search the skies for alien technology

  Image: ESO Can we find alien technology? That is the ambitious goal of the Galileo Project, launched this week by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb with...

On its first try, China’s Zhurong rover hit a Mars milestone that took NASA decades

  Picture: CNSA China’s Zhurong rover landed safely on Mars on May 15, making China only the third country to successfully land a rover on the red planet. More...

So a helicopter flew on Mars for the first time. A space physicist explains why that’s such a big deal

 Picture: NASA/AP On Tuesday at 9pm Australian Eastern standard time, the Ingenuity helicopter — which landed on Mars with the Perseverance rover in February — took off from...

‘War in space’ would be a catastrophe. A return to rules-based cooperation is the only way to keep space peaceful

SpaceX In 2019, US President Donald Trump declared “space is the new war-fighting domain”. This followed the creation of the US Space Force...

Cool discovery: new studies confirm Moon has icy poles

Picture: NASA Water is more abundant on the Moon than we might have suspected, according to two papers published today in Nature Astronomy that...
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