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In 2004 a NASA probe caught a comet's tail on a sheet of aerogel, flew the grains 4.6 billion kilometres home, and dropped them into the Utah desert — the first solid pieces of a comet ever returned to Earth
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In 2004 a NASA probe caught a comet’s tail on a sheet of aerogel, flew the grains 4.6 billion kilometres home, and dropped them into the Utah desert — the first solid pieces of a comet ever returned to Earth

  • July 19, 2026
On 2 January 2004, NASA’s Stardust spacecraft flew through the cloud surrounding comet 81P/Wild 2 at 6.1 kilometres…
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Gilmour Space Technologies Eris rocket launch window has been delayed by 24 hours after the team identified an issue in the ground support system. Image: Supplied
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Labor’s capital gains tax changes push Gilmour Space boss towards Nasdaq launch rather than ASX amid investment concerns

  • July 18, 2026
Labor’s tax changes are already weighing on Australian entrepreneurs, as the boss of a space company cites the…
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An AI searched nearly 100 million old Hubble images in two and a half days and found 1,300 cosmic oddities — more than 800 of them had never appeared in the scientific literature
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An AI searched nearly 100 million old Hubble images in two and a half days and found 1,300 cosmic oddities — more than 800 of them had never appeared in the scientific literature

  • July 18, 2026
A machine-learning system called AnomalyMatch processed 99.6 million small image cutouts derived from the Hubble Legacy Archive in…
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A primitive dwarf galaxy with almost none of the heavy elements found in the Milky Way is somehow producing iron and silicon-carbide dust — materials astronomers thought early galaxies would struggle to make
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A primitive dwarf galaxy with almost none of the heavy elements found in the Milky Way is somehow producing iron and silicon-carbide dust — materials astronomers thought early galaxies would struggle to make

  • July 18, 2026
The dwarf galaxy Sextans A is poor in the elements astronomers collectively call metals. Yet observations from the…
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Two asteroids receive unprecedented visits from space probes in a single week | Science

  • July 18, 2026
It’s strange how we get used to what was once extraordinary. At the start of July, two spacecraft…
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the sun
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A great mystery of our Sun still remains unsolved even after a 100 years

  • July 18, 2026
Image by Anton Kudryashov via Pexels At first glance, the Sun appears to shine with plain white or…
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Apollo 13 set the record for the farthest humans had travelled from Earth by accident in 1970, after an explosion forced it into an emergency loop around the Moon. Artemis II broke it by design in April 2026, flying exactly 4,101 miles farther — then proposing names for two lunar craters as the crew passed overhead
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Apollo 13 set the record for the farthest humans had travelled from Earth by accident in 1970, after an explosion forced it into an emergency loop around the Moon. Artemis II broke it by design in April 2026, flying exactly 4,101 miles farther — then proposing names for two lunar craters as the crew passed overhead

  • July 18, 2026
The Apollo 13 distance record was never meant to be a monument. It was a byproduct of a…
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Astronauts on the ISS watch 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets a day, and many say the hardest thing to describe back home is how thin the atmosphere looks from above — a bright blue line you could almost rub out with a thumb
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Astronauts on the ISS watch 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets a day, and many say the hardest thing to describe back home is how thin the atmosphere looks from above — a bright blue line you could almost rub out with a thumb

  • July 18, 2026
The International Space Station circles Earth about once every 90 minutes. That orbital rhythm gives its crew roughly…
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Researchers extracted water directly from lunar soil in July 2025 and used sunlight to convert it into breathable oxygen and rocket fuel — cutting out any need to ship water from Earth, where a single gallon costs an estimated $83,000 to launch
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Researchers extracted water directly from lunar soil in July 2025 and used sunlight to convert it into breathable oxygen and rocket fuel — cutting out any need to ship water from Earth, where a single gallon costs an estimated $83,000 to launch

  • July 18, 2026
Researchers working with material returned by China’s Chang’e-5 mission reported on 16 July 2025 that they had used…
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China’s Tianwen-1 Captures Rare Close-Up Images of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
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China’s Tianwen-1 Captures Rare Close-Up Images of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

  • July 18, 2026
An artist’s impression of 3I/ATLAS is shown as it passes near the Sun. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/M.Weiss China’s Tianwen-1…
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Another reusable rocket? Japan launches, lands RV-X prototype (video)
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Another reusable rocket? Japan launches, lands RV-X prototype (video)

  • July 18, 2026
Japan has succeeded in the first-ever flight test of its RV-X experimental reusable rocket prototype. The launch —…
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SpaceX’s only problem is finding more space to work with
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SpaceX’s only problem is finding more space to work with

  • July 18, 2026
SpaceX’s IPO marks the moment the space dream became a mainstream capital markets story. For decades, it has…
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