Australian Space News

We Can Create "Reverse Solar Power" at Night, Study Says.

We Can Create "Reverse Solar Power" at Night, Study Says.

You know how solar power works right? The panels convert sunlight photons into electricity via exciting electrons. Sunlight in, energy out, which is a pretty good model considering one big...
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Greenhouse Damage linked to Drought as Early as the 1800s

Greenhouse Damage linked to Drought as Early as the 1800s

We have now discovered evidence that human-influenced climate change has affected drought and precipitation as early as the 1800s. The trend has been extrapolated over time and is now synonymous...
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NASA Trial Converts Sunlight and Breath Into Oxygen and Food.

NASA Trial Converts Sunlight and Breath Into Oxygen and Food.

Now it's not going to be a three-course meal, but a trial has started on the ISS with a renewable means of creating food and breathable air from Co2 and...
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Insane Hubble Image Shows 265,000 Galaxies.

Insane Hubble Image Shows 265,000 Galaxies.

We couldn't post this on our social media as the compression simply wouldn't do it justice. Since the year 1990, The Hubble Telescope has been serving out steaming hot dishes...
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Asteroid set to pass by Earth in 2029

Massive Asteroid Visible to the Naked Eye will pass by Earth.

A 335m wide asteroid named 99942 Apophis will make a brief introduction to Earth before sailing by, gaining light and momentum as it does so in April 2029. The asteroid will...
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The Sound of Two Black Holes Colliding

The Sound of Two Black Holes Colliding

Finally, we have heard what it sounds like when two gigantic black holes collide and fuse together creating gravitational waves and actual ripples in the very fabric of space and...
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Manhattan? More like Man-Flatten.

Manhattan? More like Man-Flatten.

Asteroids, the only preventable natural disaster and one that has been immortalised in cult sci-fi films of the 90s.  But like the films where the antagonist is a rolling wrecking...
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Jean Dean, the granny amateur astro photographer

Nanna X NASA: How one Granny Pushed Into The Deep Unknown

Too often we hear tales of the astronomically (pun intended) priced telescopes delivering shots of unseen and majestic pockets of the galaxy. But what really inspires us is the little...
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Ask ARSE: Is It Hard for Astronauts to Come Home?

Ask ARSE: Is It Hard for Astronauts to Come Home?

We have a message from a young Astro enthusiast so we're going to go ahead and: Ask ARSE. "Hi Space Aus, you posted on facebook that it's hard for astronauts...
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First Recorded Marsquake "Rocks" Old Red, Sounds Hauntingly Beautiful.

First Recorded Marsquake "Rocks" Old Red, Sounds Hauntingly Beautiful.

Insight Lander has been privy to the happenings of seismic activity on Mars, and the audio is haunting. Analysis from the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument has confirmed...
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