Australian astronomers hunting for Earth-like planets outside our solar system and investigating the dramatic life and death of stars have been given a major boost.
South Korea's first domestically built space rocket has blasted off but failed to fully place a dummy satellite into orbit, delivering mixed results for a test launch that represents a major leap for the country's ambitious space plans.
Three months after US billionaire Jeff Bezos soared into space on a rocketship built by his Blue Origin company, the craft is set to take another all-civilian crew on a suborbital ride, this time with Star Trek actor William Shatner in the lead role.
A West Australian-made satellite has been launched into space for the first time. Named after the Noongar word for fireball, Binar-1 was designed and built by 30 undergraduate students and engineers at Perth's Curtin University.
Scientists from the ANU and around the world have for the first time detected black holes eating neutron stars, “like Pac Man”, in a discovery documenting the collision of the two most extreme and enigmatic objects in the Universe.
ANU scientists will help construct one of the world’s most powerful ground-based telescopes that promises to see further and clearer than the Hubble Space Telescope and unlock mysteries of the early Universe.
