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...

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,...

On August 28, a SpaceX rocket will blast off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying supplies bound for the International Space Station. But also...

  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...

  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. More...

 Picture: NASA/AP On Tuesday at 9pm Australian Eastern standard time, the Ingenuity helicopter — which landed on Mars with the Perseverance rover in February — took off from...

SpaceX In 2019, US President Donald Trump declared “space is the new war-fighting domain”. This followed the creation of the US Space Force...

Picture: NASA Water is more abundant on the Moon than we might have suspected, according to two papers published today in Nature Astronomy that...

The Perseverance Rover (Mars 2020) installed within the upper stage of the United Launch Alliance rocket that will send it to Mars from...