Did a giant radio telescope in China just discover aliens? Not so FAST…
Image: Liu Xu / Xinhua / AP
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
– Carl Sagan (Cosmos, 1980)
This phrase is the standard that astronomers will be applying to a curious...
Australia wants a space industry. So why won’t we pay for the basic research to drive it?
Image: Australian Space Agency
In the past few years, Australia has formed its own space agency and launched a defence “space command”. Billions of dollars for defence,...
We’re launching Australia’s first scratch-built satellite, and it’s a giant leap towards the Moon
On August 28, a SpaceX rocket will blast off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying supplies bound for the International Space Station. But also...
Is the truth out there? How the Harvard-based Galileo Project will search the skies for alien technology
Image: ESO
Can we find alien technology? That is the ambitious goal of the Galileo Project, launched this week by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb with...
On its first try, China’s Zhurong rover hit a Mars milestone that took NASA decades
Picture: CNSA
China’s Zhurong rover landed safely on Mars on May 15, making China only the third country to successfully land a rover on the red planet.
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So a helicopter flew on Mars for the first time. A space physicist explains why that’s such a big deal
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On Tuesday at 9pm Australian Eastern standard time, the Ingenuity helicopter — which landed on Mars with the Perseverance rover in February — took off from...
