Space Exploration

SpaceX has aborted an attempt to catch the first stage booster of its Starship mega rocket in the "chopstick" arms of its launch tower in an ocean splashdown. 

NASA scientists believe Uranus could be capable of supporting life, after pouring through data from the 1986 Voyager 2 spacecraft.

The palm-sized LignoSat is tasked with demonstrating the cosmic potential of the renewable material as humans explore living in space.

Years of community protesting hasn't stopped SA's planning minister granting final approval to allow the company behind a rocket launching project to continue with its space exploration mission.

NASA's Perseverance rover spots a potato-shaped moon passing in front of the Sun during a recent solar eclipse, creating a "googly eye" on Mars.

China has set out plans to land a crewed rocket on the Moon as well as build a base on the less-explored side.

China launches the Shenzou-19 spacecraft carrying a crew of three taikonauts into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

The Whalers Way Orbital Launch complex is another step closer to operation as federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek gives the green light to the project. 

Social media reports of fireballs lighting up the night sky seemingly pop up very regularly — just this week hundreds of people saw one over the US and Canada. Are they becoming more frequent or are we just better at catching them?

The first woman on the moon will be wearing a Prada space suit, as part of NASA's first human mission to the lunar South Pole. The suit has been designed for NASA's Artemis III,  planned for 2026.

A Canadian company has signed a deal to test its rocket in South Australia next year. If successful, it will be the first time a rocket reaches space from the remote Koonibba base.

The Europa Clipper’s navigator Sarah Elizabeth McCandless says there are signs of a global ocean underneath an icy crust on the moon.

The CSIRO deep space team’s Glen Nagle says Europa is the ‘best candidate’ other than Earth for supporting life in the solar system.

An imposing NASA probe scheduled to lift off as Australia sleeps might take the first real step toward finding out if anywhere else in our solar system could support life.

SpaceX pulled off its boldest test flight yet of the enormous Starship rocket on Sunday, catching the returning booster back at the launch pad using a tower dubbed "Mechazilla".

Going to Space Camp is something many kids can only dream about, but for these First Nations high-schoolers it’s become a reality. They’ll jet off to the States later this month to participate in science and technology workshops at the US Space and Rocket Centre. 

The laying of antennas at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, is a big job for one of the biggest-ever scientific endeavours.

If there are aliens out there, we'll find them. That's the message from the team behind one of the world's biggest science projects being built in remote Australia.

The European Space Agency's Hera will travel to the scene of the crash and investigate whether the asteroid has a new crater or new shape and whether it has begun to tumble.

It's hoped the data collected using the Anglo-Australian Telescope near Coonabarabran will help scientists test theories about space and how our galaxy was formed.