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Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos’ duelling visions of space.

Utopia or extinction: The space visions driving Bezos and Musk

One billionaire wants to move industry off-world, returning Earth to a pristine state. The other wants humans to colonise Mars for our own survival.

  • Chris Zappone

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Aussies who had their eyes to the skies last night were dazzled by the meteor shower lighting up the skies of Brisbane and regional New South Wales.
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Meteor shower spotted across Brisbane and NSW

Aussies who had their eyes to the skies last night were dazzled by the meteor shower lighting up the skies of Brisbane and regional New South Wales.

The sky lit up in parts of Australia’s east coast overnight.

Green fireball explodes in city sky as annual meteor shower hits Australia’s east coast

Dramatic dashcam footage captured this week showed something that wouldn’t be out of place in a sci-fi film – space coming to Earth. Here’s how to watch the magic in real life.

  • Bronte Gossling
Seated from left: Lauren Sanchez and Kerianne Flynn. Standing from left: Amanda Nguyen, Katy Perry, Gayle King and Aisha Bowe.

I’ve got a rocket for these space cadets and their pantomime of feminism

The whole exercise was emblazoned with such drippy femininity that all womankind was implicated. It was a test of the implicit feminist pact to Support Women. I suspect I failed it.

  • Jacqueline Maley
The all-female occupents of Blue Origin’s flight: Katy Perry, Gayle King, Aisha Bowe, Kerianne Flynn, Lauren Sanchez and Amanda Nguyen.

I hear you mocking the female astronauts. You’re doing dirty work for the bad guys

With all the chaos and costs being borne by women in Trump’s America, are people really upset about Katy Perry saying space made her feel “connected to love”?

  • Kate Halfpenny

Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists have detected the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes.

  • Will Dunham
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Katy Perry kisses the ground after all-female celebrity Blue Origin space flight.

‘It’s not about me’: Katy Perry kisses the ground after all-female celebrity space flight

It was the latest wave in space tourism, where the rich and famous – or lucky and well-connected – can enter the zero-gravity realm of professional astronauts.

  • Marcia Dunn
The all-woman crew for Blue OriginÕs upcoming flight into space includes, clockwise from top left: Katy Perry, Gayle King, Aisha Bowe, Kerianne Flynn, Lauren S‡nchez and Amanda Nguyen, on the bridge of Blue OriginÕs Launch Site One outside of Van Horn, Texas.

‘Bring a little spice to space’: The star-studded all-female crew sporting ‘sexy’ suits

Katy Perry is among a celebrity line-up of six women heading into orbit in custom-designed suits likened to Marvel superhero outfits.

  • Henry Samuel
Katy Perry is off to space.

Space has a PR problem. It’s time to make it great again

Using space as a stunt to recover from a failed album is just another nail in the coffin of the great black void’s reputation.

  • Patrick Lenton
Rocket crashes into sea in Norway.

‘A great success’: Start-up’s rocket crashes into sea after lift-off in Norway

Video from the launch shows the rocket taking off from the pad, flying into the air and then coming back down to crash into the sea in a fiery explosion.

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