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An Australian-built rover is heading for the moon.

Australia’s giant leap in quest for life on the moon

The nation’s first moon rover, or Roo-ver, will gather and analyse fine lunar soil as NASA prepares for the first crewed landing since 1972.

  • Angus Dalton

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Happy Homesick: A render of the winner of the inaugural Australian Space Architecture Challenge by Eric Luan, Claire Basso, Robert Cameron, and JD Otto, students and faculty from the University of Western Australia. This image is a render of the exterior.

Working in silence and no sharp corners: How humans would live on the moon

The inaugural Australian Space Architecture Challenge asked entrants to create a human outpost on Earth’s only natural satellite.

  • Julie Power
Author Arthur C. Clarke at a home in Washington, DC in 1952.

Remains of sci-fi legends burn in Earth’s atmosphere

Aboard a spacecraft that came back to Earth, were the ashes and DNA from about 70 people, including the creator of Star Trek.

  • Marcia Dunn
Illustrations of Artemis Gateway, which will serve as a multi-purpose outpost orbiting the Moon.

Should we even bother going back to the moon?

Even if you don’t see going to the moon as little more than a boys’ own adventure, but with girls allowed this time, it’s hard to see how the economics work.

  • Graham Phillips
An unlimited budget would see Kotzmann take an orbital flight in Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin capsule.

'This is the only way to get back to the moon fast': Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin partners with companies on NASA moon lander

Blue Origin joins forces with three other companies to develop its lunar lander designed to help NASA put humans on the moon by 2024.

  • Joey Roulette
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Make Earth residential: Bezos wants to move factories to the moon

The world will no longer need to house planet-killing factories and could be rezoned residential, the Amazon billionaire says as he details his space plans.

  • Julie Bort
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'Time to go back, this time to stay': Bezos reveals his moon mission

The world's wealthiest man, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, wants to 'build a road to space' to help future generations colonise Earth's tiny orbiting sibling.

  • Brad Stone
SpaceX launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with a lunar lander. Screengrab: SpaceX.

Israel's first moon mission lifts off from Cape Canaveral

The unmanned robotic explorer named Beresheet - Hebrew for "genesis" - lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX company.

An artist's impression of SpaceIL's lunar lander, Beresheet, landing on the moon

Israel's first moon mission set to lift off from Florida

The unmanned robotic explorer named Beresheet - Hebrew for "genesis" - is due to lift off from Cape Canaveral atop a Falcon 9 rocket launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX company.

This image from video provided by Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles shows an impact flash on the moon, circled bottom left, during the lunar eclipse which started on Sunday evening. Scientists say it appears a rock from a comet slammed into the moon.

Bright flash shows object slamming into moon during lunar eclipse

It appears that a rock from a comet slammed into the moon during the total lunar eclipse at the weekend, astronomers say.

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