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This image from a SpaceX livestream in August shows the 10th Starship mission splashing down in the Indian Ocean.

It’s not too late to cash in on the new space race

Things are looking up for investors scouring the market for stratospheric valuations.

  • David Stevenson

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Pilot declared ‘Mayday’ after flying through Musk rocket explosion

The explosion of a SpaceX rocket earlier this year put multiple passenger planes and hundreds of people in danger, new documents reveal.

  • Lily Shanagher
Polar adventure Tom Hunt

To infinity and beyond: This polar record-chaser is a throwback to Shackleton and Mawson

Like Indiana Jones, Tom Hunt is a scientist with a thirst for high-risk adventure. The Englishman is aiming to make the fastest unsupported trip to the South Pole - and then a voyage to the stars.

  • Iain Payten

The November 22 edition

The Gold Coast rocket developer with Elon Musk in his sights | The Glock-carrying librarian | Putting the fun in funerals | The chase for our southern lights

Adam Gilmour, co-founder & CEO at Gilmour Space Technologies south of Brisbane.

Adam wants to live on the moon – and he’s spending millions to get there

In a Gold Coast factory, former banker and gymnast Adam Gilmour is working on a rocket design that could take a slice of Elon Musk’s SpaceX business.

  • Liam Mannix
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

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