Minerals on the surface of Mars could be the last remnants of an ancient sea 3.5 billion years ago, according to international researchers. The team say there are features in the southern Utopia region that could be evidence of a coastline, meaning for a short period in the planet's history it could have had an ocean.
Dark energy doesn't exist, according to new evidence
For the last hundred years or so, physicists believed the Universe was expanding equally in all directions, and used the concept of "dark energy" as a placeholder to help explain what they couldn't understand.
Curtin University in Perth has joined forces with NASA, the University of Miami, San José State University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology on a new-generation satellite mission
As NASA prepares for the first crewed Moon landing in more than five decades, the agency has identified an updated set of nine potential landing regions near the lunar South Pole for its Artemis III mission.
Those searching for life on Mars should look within its ice, according to international researchers.
The most common types of meteorites that reach Earth are likely to have come from just a few asteroid breakup events, according to two international research papers.
Southern Launch and Varda Space Industries, an American microgravity-enabled life sciences company, have received authorisation from the Australian Government for a series of returns at the Koonibba Test Range.
Southern Launch has been granted all approvals for the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex located on the tip of the Eyre Peninsula.
They say work on permanent facilities will begin in earnest with the first launches from the site scheduled for late 2025.
Minister for Industry and Science, Ed Husic MP, and the Australian Space Agency has granted the country's first orbital launch permit to Gilmour Space Technologies for its maiden Eris rocket launch from the Bowen Orbital Spaceport in #NorthQueensland.
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Massive Australian Launch news - Gilmour Space GO for the Australia's first oribital launch attempt as Southern Launch gets approval for permanent facilities at Whalers Way, plus NASA provides details of potential landing sites for Artemis 3.
Adelaide scientists have announced the development of a distress monitoring and rescue beacon for future astronauts visiting the Moon
Australian scientists have released data from a massive stellar mapping survey that's analysed nearly 1 million stars in the Milky Way.
