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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

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The smaller or the farther away an object is, the more it twinkles.

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
A 1979 file image of Skylab, at the end of its mission when it crashed back to Earth. Skylab was the first United States manned space station, launched on May 14, 1973.

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
Maegan Oberhardt, an award-winning wildlife artist.

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
Oskar Lindenmayer holds a fragment of the Cranbourne meteorites, revealing (in green) the new mineral muonionalustaite.

A Melbourne meteorite reveals an exotic new mineral hiding in plain sight

Hundreds of thousands of visitors have walked past the chunk of ancient space rock that has been on display at the Melbourne Museum for years. Then several small patches of green caught a scientist’s eye.

  • Liam Mannix
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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A visualisation of space debris surrounding Earth.

A Sydney start-up launched a satellite to fight space junk. It’s now space junk

The largest Australian-built commercial satellite was launched in March. Then it went dark.

  • Angus Dalton
Australian astronomers have created the most detailed maps of gravitational waves across the universe to date.

‘A ship on the ocean of reality’: New maps show universe is even weirder than we thought

A decade ago, astronomers observed gravitational waves for the first time. What has emerged since is a picture of the universe as a vast ocean – dark and powerful.

  • Liam Mannix
From dust to dust, WA to the moon, space exploration history is being made in the Wheatbelt.

One West Aussie’s journey from oil and gas to cosmic superstar

In a pinch-himself moment, Peter Teale has made WA centre stage – again – in man’s second mission to the moon.

  • Claire Ottaviano
UWA International Space Centre director Danail Obreschkow and space centre researcher Sascha Schediwy proudly show off the state’s best at WA Space Week.

Out of this world: What’s drawing Earth’s best space minds to WA

The state government has pumped $25 million into the WA research centre helping to build the world’s largest telescope.

  • Claire Ottaviano

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