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Rovers of the red planet

While the mission is over for the Opportunity and Spirit Mars Rovers, their legacy lives on and the allure of the red planet continues as we gear up for the next Mars Rover mission.

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When in Rome: radio astronomy gets a global boost

Governments from around the world have committed to building and operating an impressive new instrument for understanding the Universe – the Square Kilometre Array.

Kick the tires and light the fires: our science is taking off at the Avalon Airshow

We’re up where we belong at the Avalon Airshow, showing off our breakthrough research in the aerospace industry.

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Plans for mega-telescope coming into focus

The world’s largest telescope, the Square Kilometre Array, has come a step closer as the plans for its infrastructure are now approved.

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Meet our space sifter

Tim Galvin only wants to worry about the ‘cool, interesting’ stuff. Which might explain why he’s working on an algorithm to sift supernovas from Moon dust.

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Keeping track for the European Space Agency

It’s been a big year in space for Australia! In 2019, we’ll be building on our experience to manage ESA’s New Norcia ground station in Western Australia – a first for an Australian organisation.

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Australia is still listening to Voyager 2 as NASA confirms the probe is now in interstellar space

Voyager 2 has entered interstellar space and is still sending back data that are picked up by radio telescopes in Australia.

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Good things come in small packages, satellites included

CubeSats - aka nanosatellites herald a new approach to Earth observation and remote sensing work for Australia. For their size, they punch well above their weight.

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NASA spacecraft arrives at Bennu asteroid

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has travelled more than 2 billion kilometres across the solar system and has now officially arrived in Bennu’s orbit.

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Sydney Harbour as seen from space: it’s not just black and white

The first images from the new NovaSAR-1 satellite – which has superpowers including night vision and the ability to see through clouds – have just been received.

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The search for the source of a mysterious fast radio burst comes relatively close to home

Astronomers think they've identified which galaxy was the source of a blast radio energy, over in a fraction of a second. And it's much closer to us than the others detected, so far.

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Dying, not waving: nearby dwarf galaxy running out of gas

Even though it’s on an astronomical timeline, a close intergalactic neighbour of ours known as the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is slowly dying.

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