Top-down artist depiction of a tiny black hole and a pileup of gas and matter swirling toward the center.
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The little-known Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer spacecraft was like a Geiger counter for the universe, listening to black holes and zombie stars.
InSight aims to figure out just how tectonically active Mars is, and how often meteorites impact it.
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What is Mars made of? We hear from a scientist who will be part of the team analysing ‘marsquake’ seismic data and orbital imagery from the InSight mission to the red planet.
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9.
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The new planet-hunting telescope TESS was successfully launched today by NASA, and Australia will play a key role in checking out any new worlds it discovers.
TESS will soon be our eye in the sky.
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How long before we find a planet just like our own?
Imagined view from Kepler-10b, a planet that orbits one of the 150,000 stars that the Kepler spacecraft is monitoring.
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When NASA first started planning the Kepler mission, no one knew if the universe held any planets outside our solar system. Thousands of exoplanets later, the search enters a new phase as Kepler retires.
Kelly having a carrot snack in space.
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It’s been reported that astronaut Scott Kelly no longer has the same DNA as his twin brother after spending a year in space.
Pentagon of vortices. Mosaic of infrared images of Jupiter’s south pole.
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Surprising new results from the Juno mission may us help work out what’s going on at Saturn and other gas giants, too.
Artist impression of Kepler-90i, the eighth planet discovered orbiting around Kepler-90.
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Google’s artificial intelligence has been taught to look for planets around other stars. It’s already making new discoveries that scientists have missed.
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A new trajectory means the mission to uncover core facts about the asteroid belt will happen sooner than planned.
Who’s rushing? The Chinese Long March 5 rocket lifts off.
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Dreams of new footprints on the moon are more about domestic politics than foreign policy.
Artist’s illustration of two merging neutron stars.
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The discovery of tiny ripples in space from the violent collision of dense stars could help solve many mysteries – including where the gold in our jewellery comes from.
Off to court…
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Future Mars colonists may want to form their own legal system. What would stop them?
Olympus Mons, biggest volcano in the Solar System.
Justin Cowart
They erupted for billions of years and make Earth’s volcanoes look like molehills. Here’s what we know and what we don’t know about them.
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.
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Private companies are increasingly challenging national space agencies in a new space race, which comes with great opportunities but also huge risks.
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Space inspires, and the establishment of a Space Agency in Australia is well positioned to drive engagement in STEM.
An illustration of Cassini as it plunges into Saturn’s atmosphere.
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The last signals from Cassini space probe before it burns up in Saturn’s atmosphere will tracked by the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex.
Cassini makes the first radio occultation of Saturn’s rings producing this simulated image with green for particles smaller than 5cm and purple where particles are larger.
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The Cassini space probe took us up close and through the beautiful rings of Saturn. It captured some amazing images, and even the sound of the rings during its mission.
A Cassini portrait of five of Saturn’s moons. Janus (179km across) is on the far left, Pandora (81km across) orbits between the A ring and the thin F ring, Enceladus (504km across) is centre, Rhea (1,528km), is bisected by the right edge of the image and the smaller moon Mimas (396km) is seen beyond Rhea also on the right side of the image.
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The Cassini space probe discovered several new moons on its mission to Saturn, and revealed fresh views of the moons we already knew about.