Australian Space News

This Is How Depressingly Long We Need To Stop A Killer Asteroid...

This Is How Depressingly Long We Need To Stop A Killer Asteroid...

An asteroid 35 million miles away was heading toward Earth, and NASA and other space agencies were faced with an alarming scenario last month. It had just been discovered after...
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The Rare Super Full Blood Moon Eclipse: What You Need To Know.

The Rare Super Full Blood Moon Eclipse: What You Need To Know.

On Wednesday 26 May 2021, Australia gets a super full moon AND total lunar eclipse blood moon.     One of the astronomical highlights of 2021, it won’t just be any...
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Aussie Scientists Plan To Fire A Freakin’ Laser Beam At Space Garbage

Aussie Scientists Plan To Fire A Freakin’ Laser Beam At Space Garbage

Aussie scientists at the Australian National University (ANU) have pushed a technique that helps telescopes see objects in the night sky more clearly one step further. And the result is...
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Low Orbit Garbage Has Classified Large Parts of Earth As "Light Polluted," Scientists Reveal

Low Orbit Garbage Has Classified Large Parts of Earth As "Light Polluted," Scientists Reveal

A new study in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society details how our night sky is increasingly obscured by swathes of reflective space junk. The researchers found that...
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Astronomers Baked Interstellar Meteorite Dust to 12000 Degrees. Here's Why.

Astronomers Baked Interstellar Meteorite Dust to 12000 Degrees. Here's Why.

You ever wondered what Earth’s atmosphere was like 4.5 billion years ago? It’s a tough one to answer, because back in the old days Earth was more like a swirling...
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Mars Ingenuity's New Mission Will Push It To The Brink of Death

Mars Ingenuity's New Mission Will Push It To The Brink of Death

Ingenuity the helicopter rose into the thin atmosphere of Mars by using its blades to push against it. It then hovered above the surface of the planet and plunged down...
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"Huh... Wow." Type Facts About How Fragile & Insignificant You Are.

"Huh... Wow." Type Facts About How Fragile & Insignificant You Are.

We had work drinks last night for a birthday.Enjoy this exhaustive list of weird space stuff we banded together about how we feel while dehydrated and running on 2 hours sleep. If you...
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Launch Providers Need To Be Held Accountable For Their Space Trash.

Launch Providers Need To Be Held Accountable For Their Space Trash.

The common area over Earth has become a trash pile, and we can't agree on the best way to resolve it. For over 50 years, we’ve launched tonnes of refuse...
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Meet The Aerospace Engineer That Helped Save Apollo 13 While Giving Birth.

Meet The Aerospace Engineer That Helped Save Apollo 13 While Giving Birth.

Judith Love Cohen, who helped create the Abort-Guidance System which rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts, went to work on the day she was in labour. She took a printout of...
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Persy Rover Extracts Breathable Oxygen From Mars' Atmosphere, Here's What That Means.

Persy Rover Extracts Breathable Oxygen From Mars' Atmosphere, Here's What That Means.

In another first for NASA, the agency's newest Mars mission has turned carbon dioxide from the planet's atmosphere into breathable oxygen. An experimental device aboard Perseverance achieved the extraordinary extraction...
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