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A billionaire-funded space flight has nothing to do with women’s empowerment
Few things incite a global pile-on as quickly as a group of wealthy, glamorous women being tone-deaf. Like, for example,…
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Saturn Is ‘Losing’ Its Rings This Month — This Is Why And When We Can Expect To See Them Again
Listen, we know this has already been a disorientating year so far, but Saturn is about to lose its iconic…
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New CSIRO technology detects more than 20 mysterious signals in space
More than 20 mysterious signals have been detected in space after a team of Australian researchers began sifting through intergalactic…
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Moon added to list of threatened cultural sites amid boom in space exploration
For the first time, the Moon has been added to the World Monuments Fund global “watch list” of heritage places…
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How to catch the dazzling ‘planetary parade’ across Australian skies this weekend
The night sky is putting on a celestial show over the next week with a dazzling “planetary parade” featuring six…
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Seeing stars: meet the amateur astronomers – in pictures
They may stare into space from shonky-looking booths, but these citizen scientists have helped discover comets, dangerous asteroids and more…
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Scientists are zooming in on these 14 plastic squares. It might help clean up your beach
On a pristine beach in Gippsland, a team of scientists are dumping plastic rubbish. Their littering is extremely precise. When…
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Missed It? The Northern Lights Are Still Visible Tonight – Here’s How To Watch
Good news for sky-watchers; the Met Office says that the stunning Northern Lights many of us spotted last night might…
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‘Are we alone in the universe?’ This giant Australian project aims to find out
Deep in the Australian outback, one of the world’s biggest science experiments is being constructed — a ‘time machine’ that’s…
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