Astronomy (Space)

The Australian Space Agency reveals four potential names for the country's first Moon rover, as part of a competition that now heads to a public vote.

Former astronaut Dr Garrett Reisman explains the significance of the SpaceX rocket failure and what it could mean when the company succeeds in building a reusable rocket.

SpaceX starship was planned to complete a 90 minute flight into space but mission control lost the signal soon after launch.

About eight minutes into the test mission, a camera view tracking the Starship booster appears to show an explosion. The US Federal Aviation Administration will oversee an investigation. 

In the past few days, a slew of articles have run like wildfire through social media. Saturn's rings, those articles claim, are rapidly disappearing — and will be gone by 2025! So what's the story?

Borman commanded Apollo 8's historic Christmas 1968 flight that circled the moon and paved the way for the 1969 lunar landing.

The fledgling Arnhem Space Centre in the remote Northern Territory is looking to substantially expand its facilities and launch capacity if it's given the tick of approval.

Researchers have made the first direct detection of atomic oxygen in the atmosphere of Venus. Some say it builds the case the planet was more hospitable in the past.

An aurora australis visible to the naked eye has been seen across Western Australia in the brightest display of southern lights in years.

Thomas Kenneth Mattingly played an integral role in helping Apollo 13 trio return safely home so much so that his experience was adapted into a book and a movie. 

Some of Australia's brightest young minds have launched their career ambitions into space as part of the competition developing STEM skills.

Katherine Bennell-Pegg is well on her way to be Australia's first female astronaut.

The cosmic waltz captured by the ultra-powerful telescope took place roughly 500 million light years away from Earth.

A United Nations report warns the world is "perilously close" to triggering tipping points that could have "irreversible, catastrophic impacts for people and the planet" — but it's not too late to act.

The visible solar disk and the occulting lunar limb are outlined by the solid and dotted circles, respectively. Notably, the radio sun occasionally distorts due to the refraction of radio waves by the fluctuating ionosphere.

The other side of the world was treated to a 'ring of fire' annular solar eclipse. Here's a look at the celestial event in a way never seen before.

A US-based company using the microgravity and vacuum conditions in space to produce pharmaceuticals plans to land its capsules at a site in South Australia's far west.

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured data on a flyby of Jupiter's moon Io, one of 92 moons that orbit the gas giant. 

An annular eclipse darkened skies over several South American countries and the US, but it wasn't visible in Australia. Here are the photos from the other side of the globe.

The Psyche probe, folded inside the cargo bay of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is due to reach the asteroid in August 2029. 

On the evening of Friday, September 16, 2022, Elon Musk was stressed. He was being asked to make a decision that he thought would change the fate of the war in Ukraine.

U.S astronaut Frank Rubio returns from space after more than a year on the International Space Station.

An awe-inspiring image of an oxygen arc next to the Andromeda Galaxy has placed first out of 4,000 entries from 64 countries.

A large dish once used to assist NASA missions from Carnarvon in Western Australia is being refurbished so it can track satellites in geostationary orbit around Earth. 

A new method that uses artificial intelligence could help identify ancient life on Earth, as well as help in the search for it on other planets, say researchers.