Starry-eyed high school students are waiting eagerly for their science projects to be launched 2000km out of this world as part of Curtin University’s BinarX spacecraft launch.
Caitlin Vinci
A groundbreaking Aussie company has locked in its second attempt at joining the space race, with the very first Australian-made rocket set to launch in days.
Blair Jackson
Stargazers across the globe will be treated to a full moon spectacle this week. Here’s everything you need to know to catch the best sight of it from Perth.
Perth’s astronomy fans are being told to look up to the sky tonight with Perth in for its best shot at seeing an aurora since the start of the year - as long as the clouds don’t ruin the show.
Oliver Lane
WA astronomers have discovered a mysterious cosmic phenomenon 15,000 light-years from Earth that science is unable to fully explain, and it took a little luck to do so.
Ben O'Shea
An unlikely suspect has emerged during the investigation into the technical issue that caused the first Australian-made rocket launch to be delayed.
Emma Kirk
After celebrating the successful launch of SpaceX’s Starship following two failed attempts, Elon Musk’s rocket has blown up on reentry.
Max Corstorphan
The meteor that lit up the skies over Western Australia in the early hours of Mother’s Day has been located.
There’s been a huge update as Gilmour Space Technologies enters its launch window to fire off a rocket into orbit.
Duncan Evans, Alexandra Feiam
The countdown has begun for an Aussie company’s dream to lift-off into space and begin competing with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Duncan Evans
Residents in WA have been treated to a dazzling astronomical event as a blazing meteor lit up the skies.
Alexandra Feiam
A truck driver travelling through WA’s Goldfields was left amazed after being treated to the spectacular sight of a fireball in the sky on Sunday morning.
Western Australia has dodged a bullet after avoiding being hit by a defective Cold War era Soviet spacecraft on Saturday afternoon.
Nearly 46 years after the Skylab space station caused a sonic boom as it blazed a kaleidoscopic trail across the WA sky, another doomed spacecraft, Kosmos 482, is expected to crash to Earth.
It’s happening in just hours and you can expect up to 40 meteors per hour!
Taylor Renouf
Millions of Aussies could get the chance to glimpse a dazzling sight as a meteor shower streaks through the night skies on Wednesday morning.
Aussies have captured footage of a meteor blazing through the skies, with people reporting massive booms and even their houses shaking.
Here is where, when and how to catch the spectacular Lyrid meteor shower for an incredible astronomical experience.
Summer Liu
A group of scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope claim to have discovered the strongest signs ever recorded of life on an alien planet.
West Australians were treated to an amazing array of lights in the night sky on Wednesday thanks to an Aurora Australis.
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams’ space odyssey is finally over after 286 days but the fallout from their grueling mission is only just beginning.
Peta Rasdien
SEE THE PICS: After spending nine months stuck in space, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are back on Earth, smiling, waving and cheering as they exited SpaceX Dragon.
Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore’s time in space could soon be over as the hatch is closed on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
Victoria Bisset, Christian Davenport, Leo Sands
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