The first piece of the International Space Station was launched in 1998.
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The students of class 3F at Ferny Grove State School want to know how they get oxygen into the International Space Station.
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A new trajectory means the mission to uncover core facts about the asteroid belt will happen sooner than planned.
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We’ve only travelled into space in the last century, but humanity’s desire to reach the moon is far from recent.
Three new reports examine Australia’s existing space capabilities, set them in the light of international developments, and identify growth areas and models for Australia to pursue.
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Space is becoming cheaper, more attractive to investors and increasingly important in our data-rich economy. It’s time Australia mapped a path forward.
Nothing to stop high energy weapons being deployed in orbit around Earth.
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Australia is playing a major role in developing legal guidelines that would govern how any war in space is played out. The authors of MILAMOS hope the manual is never actually required.
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The first poem in space was a plea for world peace.
It’s a bird… It’s a plane… No, it’s an object from another solar system! Astronomers have been scrambling to identify a mysterious object passing through our solar system at a speed of about 160,000 km/h. This NASA file image shows a simulation of asteroids passing the earth.
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Astronomers have detected what is believed to be the first interstellar object ever seen passing through our solar system.
Tiny and very faint, this fast moving object (centre) was captured by astronomers as it passed through our Solar system.
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The mystery object seen moving through our Solar system shows the void between the stars is far from empty. So can we expect more interstellar visitors?
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Religions tend to portray God as deeply concerned with humans, yet we seem hugely unimportant in the vast scheme of things.
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Simulations in a special chamber suggest how the Mars landscape could have been shaped under certain conditions.
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Some philosophers believe space is a giant container, while others think it’s all in our heads.
Simulation of two neutron stars merging.
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The gravitational wave itself is the least exciting part of the announcement from LIGO and Virgo. Observing this new source answers many longstanding questions.
Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson suits up ahead of a spacewalk. Vomiting inside a spacesuit during a spacewalk could be fatal for astronauts.
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The students of class 3E, Ferny Grove State School, want to know if astronauts get space sick when travelling to the International Space Station.
Without satellites, modern technologies such mobiles phones and GPS would not exist.
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We’ve all seen videos of satellites being blasted off into space - but once they’re locked in orbit around the earth, how do we bring them back down?
A girl takes a close look at the world’s first artificial.
satellite, the Soviet-made Sputnik I.
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Our fascination with space shows no signs of slowing down, 60 years after the Soviet Union launched the world’s first satellite, Sputnik.
Will it be only a few decades before Mars tourism is a reality?
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Musk’s audacious plan to blast people to Mars by 2024 glosses over some important social and political challenges that SpaceX will need to successfully navigate to get off the ground.
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Space inspires, and the establishment of a Space Agency in Australia is well positioned to drive engagement in STEM.
The Viking landers in the 1970s were the last to look directly for life on Mars.
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Planetary protection protocols try to make sure we don’t seed places like Mars with life from our planet. An astrobiologist argues they’re misguided – especially with human astronauts on the horizon.
Cmdr. Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) goes on a scientifically implausible spacewalk in Star Trek: Discovery .
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Star Trek Discovery is the latest offering in the 50-year-old science fiction franchise beloved by scientists — but it isn’t about science.
In the 1950s, Australia was actively involved in the space industry via collaboration with other space players, including the UK.
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Australia could benefit from more jobs and exports if it boosted its space industry.