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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...

James Webb Telescope: a scientist explains what its first, amazing images show – and how it will change astronomy

A star forming region in the Milky Way. NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI After decades of development and many trials and frustrations along the way, the James...

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...

Apes, robots and men: the life and death of the first space chimp

 Picture: NASA On January 31, 1961, an intrepid chimpanzee called Ham was launched on a rocket from Cape Canaveral in the United States, and returned...

Perseverance: the Mars rover searching for ancient life, and the Aussie scientists who helped build it

The Perseverance Rover (Mars 2020) installed within the upper stage of the United Launch Alliance rocket that will send it to Mars from...

Australia has long valued an outer space shared by all. Mining profits could change this

The Moon Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order reaffirming that companies joining US mining activities on the moon would have property rights...

Red planet rumbles: NASA’s recordings of ‘marsquakes’ let us listen to the martian heartbeat

The red planet. It may hold no life, but is it dead? NASA/JPL Thanks to the audio recordings of distant rumblings on Mars released last week...

An asteroid just buzzed past Earth, and we barely noticed in time

Near-Earth asteroids such as Bennu, and 2019 OK which passes close to Earth this week, pose a potential threat to our planet. NASA A...

NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft TESS is now on its mission to search for new worlds

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9. NASA Television The latest of NASA‘s incredible planet-hunting space telescopes was launched Thursday...

From rocket launches to a crashing space station, we’re in for a huge year in space

Rocket Lab successfully launched its Electron rocket from the company’s complex on the Māhia Peninsula in New Zealand. Rocket Lab A Blood Moon, a trip...
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