Bill Chalker was one of the first civilians to access Australia's secret UFO files — but when the day finally came, there was one problem. They hadn't been declassified.
SpaceX aborts Starship booster catch in an ocean splashdown
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.
Photo shows A rocket blasts off from a launch pad with water in the background.Gilmour Space Technologies given green light to launch Australia's first commercial orbital rocket
Australia's first commercial orbital rocket launch may be as early as next month after a "long, painful journey" to get a permit to launch.
Photo shows rocket in vertical position at nightSpaceX capsule returns four astronauts to Earth but Boeing Starliner crew remain on ISS
Three astronauts and one cosmonaut have returned to Earth after nearly eight months on the International Space Station, which was extended by Boeing's capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton.
Photo shows Four SpaceX astronauts dressed in blue jumpsuits stand alongside each other in single file, smilingNASA says this Jupiter moon 'might be habitable today, right now' — so they're going to take a look
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.
Photo shows A probe orbiting a cream and red moon, with Jupiter seen in the distance.SpaceX performs novel catch-landing of rocket booster with ’chopsticks’
The company’s CEO Elon Musk has hailed the novel landing method as ‘big step towards making life multi-planetary’.
Photo shows World-First Landing: A rocket booster with its engine firing is caught by claws on a large tower.Has Video Duration: 1 minute 33 seconds.Moment SpaceX catches landing rocket booster for first time
SpaceX successfully performs a catch-landing method to retrieve its rocket booster with mechanised arms attached to the vehicle's launch tower.
Photo shows A rocket with its booster firing held up by a large tower with claws.Has Video Duration: 1 minute 2 seconds.In engineering feat, SpaceX's mechanical 'arms' successfully catch Starship rocket booster back at launch pad
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".
Photo shows Smoke is emitted from a large silver cylinder as it hangs from two large metal prongs on a launch tower.NASA rammed an asteroid to see if they could change its course. It worked — but now they want to see the damage
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.
Photo shows A boulder on black.NASA astronauts will vote from space as they wait until 2025 to return home
The stranded pair's Boeing Starliner capsule returned to earth without them, with one saying it was a "trying" time after their mission turned from eight days into eight months.
Photo shows A man and a woman in blue spacesuits pose for a photo, smiling.Boeing's troubled Starliner capsule returns to Earth empty, leaving astronauts waiting on ISS
After months of turmoil over its safety, Boeing's new space capsule departs the International Space Station and lands in New Mexico — without its astronauts.
Photo shows A squat, round white space capsule sits on sandy ground at night with a light on inside it, surrounded by golden material.NASA's astronauts now aboard the ISS face 'untold consequences' for their future
With NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore stranded aboard the ISS for months, a decorated former astronaut tells the ABC they would know and have trained for the risks but the view is definitely worth it.
Photo shows Boeing starlinerThe astronauts stranded in space for eight months
Two astronauts who were supposed to go to space for eight days, have just been told their trip has been extended to eight months.
Has Video Duration: 8 minutes 3 seconds.NASA decides astronauts stranded in space will return home in February
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — stuck in space since June — will have to wait until next year for a ride home.
Photo shows Sunita Williams and Butch WIlmoreNASA unsure when stranded astronauts will return to earth
The astronauts could remain on the International Space Station until next year, with the Boeing Starliner capsule still out-of-action.
Photo shows Stranded in Space, Return Unknown: Two astronauts in blue flightsuits walking. One points.Has Video Duration: 3 minutes 6 seconds.Two US astronauts could remain stuck on the International Space Station until next year, NASA admits
An eight-day planned mission to the International Space Station could turn into eight months for two US astronauts, who have been unable to return home on Boeing's Starliner capsule since June. Here's what we know.
Photo shows Sunita Williams and Butch WIlmoreNASA astronaut Kayla Barron installs the first square for archaeological research
NASA astronaut Kayla Barron installs the first square for archaeological research on the International Space Station.
Has Video Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds.From toiletry bags to post-it notes, the International Space Station needs decluttering
Archaeologists studying areas of the International Space Station find that, much like a person's workbench, they attract miscellaneous objects that belong somewhere else entirely.
Photo shows A bunch of tools fastened to a wall marked with a yellow squareHow a piece of timber that survived NASA's Challenger disaster returned home to Australia
The great-niece of Bert Hinkler offers a rare insight into how the fragment from a glider flown by the aviation pioneer came to be aboard the doomed space shuttle and its unlikely discovery in the Atlantic Ocean.
Photo shows An olden picture of a man in a suit with a framed piece of timberThousands of Starlink satellites 'manoeuvred en masse' during recent solar storms, risking collision
The solar storm in May did more than just produce exceptional auroras. An analysis of US Space Force data has found more than 5,000 satellites had to alter their position to avoid deorbiting or crashing into each other.
Photo shows A pink sky with a line of small satellite lights in a rowAstronauts stuck in space for over a month 'confident' Boeing's Starliner will bring them home
A pair of US astronauts who should have been back on Earth weeks ago say they are confident that the problem-plagued Boeing Starliner capsule they rode up on can return them safely.
Photo shows A middle aged white man and a woman with dark curly hair pose by a round port door inside a space station