In space no one can hear you scream, but you may get a bit wet. In particular, if you were thinking of journeying to take in the sights of Saturn, it would be a good idea to pack an umbrella. This is suggested…
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Like all relationships, our association with the moon has had its ups and downs. In this series we’ve talked about the nature of the satellite and how we think it was formed - in a giant collision that…
The moon. Our nearest neighbour. The main source of the ocean’s tides, and a beacon that drives the lives of animals across the globe. And also, to date, the only object beyond Earth on which humans have…
At 18.5 billion kilometres from Earth, the Voyager 1 space probe is the most distant human-made object ever to leave our planet. And now the spacecraft, which was launched in September 1977, has discovered…
John Gardner, US Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare joined Lyndon Johnson’s cabinet in 1965 to help create a ‘Great Society’ to end poverty, promote equality, improve education, rejuvenate cities…
New mathematical analysis of 35-year-old data from the Mars Viking probes suggests that soil samples they retrieved may have…
Mercury might once have orbited the sun in a “synchronous” rotation, before being hit by a large asteroid that flicked the…
As of today, we have a cataclysmic new explanation for one of solar system astronomy’s most long-standing questions: why do the near- and far-sides of the Moon look so different? This new theory, published…
Satellite observations have revealed that magnetic oscillations carrying energy from the Sun’s surface into its outer atmosphere…
A fourth moon has been discovered in the orbit of the dwarf planet Pluto by researchers at a leading space science centre…
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
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Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria and Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne, Museums Victoria Research Institute
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Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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Associate Professor in Astronomy, Monash University
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Program Manager / Adjunct Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Instrument Scientist, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science and Planetary Exploration, University of Stirling
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University
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Outreach Manager, Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, CSIRO
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Professor of Physics, Deputy Director (Solar System) at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL
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Pro Vice-Chancellor Flagship Initiatives, Swinburne University of Technology
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PhD Candidate, University of Southern Queensland
