Backyard astronomer from Broken Hill contributes to world-first Saturn discovery
From a backyard in outback NSW in 2024, a former mine worker spotted something mysterious in the sky…
Astronaut captures Miami lighting shift from space
A photograph of Miami lit by multi-colored LEDs in 2025 taken from the International Space Station. Courtesy of…
Enceladus is just 504 kilometres across — roughly half the length of Great Britain — yet a 2026 study traced its electromagnetic Alfvén-wave wake at least 504,000 kilometres downstream through Saturn’s magnetosphere, farther than the Moon ever travels from Earth.
Enceladus is small enough to fit comfortably within the length of Great Britain. Its electromagnetic influence, however, reaches…
On this day in space! Sept. 6, 1947: The US Navy launches 1st V-2 rocket at sea in ballistic missile test
On Sept. 6, 1947, a rocket launched from an aircraft carrier for the first time. The V-2 rocket…
SpaceX and other rocket companies may soon be exempt from key environmental rules
When companies like SpaceX want to launch a rocket or build a spaceport, they are required by law…
Despite being only about half Earth’s diameter, Mars has nearly as much total surface area as all of Earth’s continents combined—the difference is that oceans cover 71% of our planet, while modern Mars has no permanent bodies of liquid water.
Mars looks small beside Earth. Its mean radius is about 3,390 kilometres, a little over half Earth’s, and…
Guests from across the galaxy visiting Lichfield city centre for 2026 Space Invasion
VISITORS from a galaxy far, far away will be making a return visit to Lichfield city centre next…
James Webb telescope finds one of our galaxy’s rarest stars inside the ‘Treasure Chest’ globule — Space photo of the week
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the “Treasure Chest,” a cometary globule in the star-forming Carina Nebula, on…
Nasa is testing a way to turn astronaut poop into a sterile, odour-free material that could be recycled |
Image: AI representation of a way to turn astronaut poop into a sterile, odour-free material that could be…
Mars has been called the Red Planet for centuries, but a 2025 study suggests its colour comes largely from ferrihydrite—an iron mineral that typically forms rapidly in cool liquid water. If the identification is correct, Mars did not rust only after becoming a desert: much of its famous red dust formed while the ancient planet was still wet.
From Earth, Mars looks red because a veil of extraordinarily fine dust sits on its surface and hangs…
Thousands of ISRO employees question fate, write to chairman amid privatisation push
Six years after the government opened the space sector to private companies, nine associations representing thousands of Isro…
Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying to give live lecture from space
Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying and her two fellow Shenzhou-23 crew members will deliver a live lecture…