Space
The billionaire Elon Musk disciple protecting Earth from city-killing asteroids
Meet Jared Isaacman, a daredevil private astronaut and billionaire ally of Elon Musk who has been lined up by Donald Trump to lead NASA.
- Matthew Field
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes, debris streaks through Florida skies
“Unfortunately, this happened last time too, so we’ve got some practice now,” SpaceX spokesman Dan Huot said on the live stream.
- Joey Roulette
‘Moon dust on our boots’: Privately owned robot lands on first attempt
Before this landing, of all who had attempted to set down softly on the moon in the 21st century only China could claim complete success on first go.
- Kenneth Chang
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WA outback to get rocket launch pad under Labor election pledge
Labor has promised $2 million to develop a business case for a WA Space Launch Facility – a common-user spaceport to allow businesses to launch satellites and spacecraft into orbit.
- Hamish Hastie
‘Never observed before’: Wedding cake structure surrounding ultra-hot planet
It is so ferociously hot that the “exoplanet” features iron in the form of a gas in one layer of its atmosphere, while a jet stream moves at 70,000 km/h in another.
- Will Dunham
Space agencies monitoring large asteroid’s threat to Earth
Astronomers say the damage from 2024 YR4 would be catastrophic should it hit a city. But for now, experts say, calm is warranted.
- Robin George Andrews
Elon Musk’s Starship explodes in flight test, forcing airlines to divert
SpaceX mission control lost contact with the newly upgraded Starship, carrying its first test payload of mock satellites but no crew, eight minutes after lift-off.
- Joey Roulette
Mystery behind ‘alien’ space signals appears solved
Scientists have pinpointed the origins of a radio wave from space and found it to be suspiciously close to a neutron star.
- Sarah Knapton
The day Jimmy Carter told Australia he was sorry
A little-publicised apology from the 39th US president, who died on Sunday at the age of 100, took place after America’s first space station exploded.
- Farrah Tomazin
Why these Aussie artworks are being sent to the south pole of the moon
An international art contest provides cash prizes and international exposure. The interstellar fame is a bonus - and a message to future generations.
- Meg Watson
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