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Canine cosmonaut Laika rests comfortably inside the Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 before being blasted into orbit in 1957.

How Laika was lost in space

The sad tale of Russia’s canine cosmonaut reflects humans’ history of subjecting dogs to pain and indignity.

  • Tim Elliott

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Crowds gather at North Bondi’s Ben Buckler Point to watch the Beaver supermoon rise on Wednesday night.

Biggest and brightest: The best time to be dazzled by the Beaver supermoon

November’s full moon marks the time of year when the celestial body swings closest to Earth. Here’s when you should train your eyes on the skies.

  • Angus Dalton
An artist’s impression of a black hole star. The cut-out reveals the central black hole with it surrounding accretion disk. What makes this a black hole star is the surrounding envelope of turbulent gas.

‘What the heck is that?’ Astronomers discover strange new black-hole stars

The James Webb Space Telescope has looked back into deep time to find “rubies” or “little red dots” stretched across the universe.

  • Liam Mannix
Kim Kardashian expressed doubt about the moon landings in a recent TV episode.

Ground control to Kim Kardashian: We’ve been to the moon six times

When the reality star said on TV that she believed a well-worn conspiracy theory, the head of NASA himself felt compelled to set the record straight.

  • Rich McKay
Suspected space debris was found on a mine site near Newman, in WA’s Pilbara. Homepage GIF. Picture: WA Police

Police turn to tech to identify ‘space debris’ found on outback WA minesite

Experts believe the debris, which was found on a remote mine site’s access road on Saturday, is part of a Chinese rocket.

  • Hannah Murphy
PhD student Max Charles with a replica of the device he and a Sydney University team fixed on the James Webb Space Telescope – and the tattoo he got with fellow student Louis Desdoigts to mark the moment.

This $10 billion telescope was taking blurry pictures. Sydney students fixed it

The extraordinary James Webb Space Telescope had a major problem before two young scientists unlocked its full potential.

  • Angus Dalton
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An artist’s impression of two NASA astronauts working on the moon. Will China beat them to it?

Nuclear-powered villages could be on the moon within 10 years. Where do we fit in?

The world is also firmly in the grips of Space Race 2.0 as the US and China battle to occupy the moon – and beyond.

  • Angus Dalton
The harvest supermoon will be observed on Tuesday evening.

A ‘fantastic’ harvest moon kicks off a striking run of supermoons. Here’s when you can see them

The celestial splendour will kick off an exciting lunar season expected to last until the new year.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo
European Space Agency’s New Norcia 3 deep space antenna an hour north of Perth.

The WA monastic town reaching out across the solar system

A 35-metre deep space antenna has been built in the West Australian monastic town of New Norcia.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
3I/Atlas comet entering our solar system.

It’s weird, super-fast and one Harvard professor thinks it could be ‘hostile’ aliens

A teardrop-shaped missile is rocketing towards Earth. It’s only the third visitor from another star to be discovered. According to one professor, it might be a camouflaged spacecraft with predatory designs.

  • Angus Dalton, Richard Lama and The Visual Stories Team

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