The sheer vastness of Australia and the crucial remote capabilities championed by its resources sector gave the nation the edge when NASA was deciding where to develop a new moon rover.
Asteroid samples fetched from deep space have parachuted into the Utah desert to cap a seven-year journey.
In the lead-up to her visit to Australia – via conventional aircraft – Valentina Sumini explains why astronauts and billionaires crave the comforts of Earth.
A US congressional hearing has heard that not only are aliens real but the US government is secretly reverse engineering their aircraft. So have extraterrestrial beings been visiting our little rock? Science can’t directly answer those questions,but it can offer some guidance on how to think about them.
Lunar water could support a permanent human presence. And,if there is potential rocket fuel,the moon could be a refuelling stop and gateway for deeper space exploration.
The command,which tilted the spacecraft’s antenna away from Earth,severed its contact with NASA.
NASA has released a close-up image of the closest star-forming region to Earth,called Rho Ophiuchi,which is about 390 light years away.
Granville was part of a small cadre of Black women involved in the space program celebrated in movie Hidden Figures.
The spacecraft will not be alone in peering into the cold storage of our universe,but Euclid will reach back farther,imaging the structure of the universe about 1 billion years after the Big Bang.
Our health workers are the best in the world at operating in remote conditions. Now they are paving the way for humanity’s return to the moon and,ultimately,Mars.
Sponsored by the Saudi Arabian government,they’re the first from their country to ride a rocket since a Saudi prince launched aboard shuttle Discovery in 1985.