Helicopter Ingenuity’s fifth flight marked the start of its next phase as a scouting vehicle.

The fifth flight of tiny Mars helicopter Ingenuity – the one that flew it above mission expectations – took place on ...

There’s a lot of space dust falling on Earth every year. Good thing most of it is so small.

Ann Hodges was chilling on her couch in Alabama, US, one afternoon in 1954 when a meteorite burst through the roof an...

Australian space start-up promises to revolutionise satellite communication.

A newly launched Australian space start-up is set to tackle the challenge of a huge influx of satellite data – by tra...

So successful is tiny Mars helicopter Ingenuity that NASA’s decided to extend its mission.

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter worked so well on its initial test flights that NASA has decided to extend its missi...

This week on Mars, Ingenuity took its third ever flight. It is already tricky to fly a helicopter on Mars, because it...

South Australian-born astronaut flew four space missions.

Seeing the Earth from space “turns you into an environmentalist”, former NASA astronaut Andy Thomas says. Thomas, ...

Motopi Pan left the asteroid 22 million years ago, and now the journey’s been traced.

22 million years ago, something smashed into the big, bright Vesta asteroid, ejecting a meteoroid into space. Scie...

Michael Collins, who orbited the Moon alone while crewmates made humankind’s first moonwalk, succ...

Former NASA astronaut Michael Collins, pilot of Apollo 11’s command module Columbia, has died in Florida, US, at the ...

NASA scientists to unveil planning for an interstellar space probe at the EGU General Assembly

A new interstellar space probe, currently in its planning phase, will boldly go where no probe has gone before accord...

Are people serious about harvesting solar energy in space and sending it back to Earth?

Harvesting solar energy in space and beaming it back to Earth may sound like science-fiction – and it originally was....

Asteroseismologists confirm older stars rotate faster than previously thought.

From planets to galaxies, asteroids to black holes, everything in the universe moves and spins, largely thanks to the...