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Tuesday, February 19

Call for more Australian Space Agency funding as Adelaide wins HQ

The space industry is calling on the Federal Government to boost funding for the Australian Space Agency, which Prime Minister Scott Morrison this morning confirmed would be headquartered in Adelaide.

"Flawless": NASA spacecraft lands on Mars after perilous descent

A NASA spacecraft designed to burrow beneath the surface of Mars has landed on the red planet after a six-month, 480-million-kilometre journey and a perilous, six-minute descent through the rose-hued atmosphere.

A still image from Grayson Cooke's 'Open Air', showing Lake Gairdner in South Australia.

An artist's surreal view of Australia - created from satellite data

Media artist Grayson Cooke uses satellite data to produce beautifully surreal images of Australian landforms, with his latest video project to be screened at next month’s Spectra Art + Science event in Adelaide.

Film review: Living Universe

Described as not science fiction, but science faction, this new documentary blends expert interviews, dramatic space-scapes and an imagined starship journey in its exploration of the quest for interstellar travel.

The oldest human object in space turns 60

Sixty years ago, a grapefruit-sized aluminium sphere with six antennas and some tiny solar cells was launched into Earth orbit.

Astronomers glimpse universe's cosmic dawn

After the Big Bang, it was dark and cold. And then there was light. Now, for the first time, astronomers have glimpsed that dawn of the universe 13.6 billion years ago when the earliest stars were turning on the light in the cosmic darkness.