While NASA was scrambling to locate Voyager 2, which it accidentally lost contact with last week, Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex was quietly listening intently to a carrier signal from the spacecraft almost 20 billion kilometres away. We found it.
An award-winning astro-photographer from Canberra has captured an incredible image of an object in the night sky, which moved west to east for about 10 minutes before disappearing.
An internationally well-respected photographer...
The Australian National University (ANU) has weighed in on the global hunt for gravitational waves with a remote control to the best gravitational wave observatory on the planet
When the bearings in your car are worn you need a service but when the bearings happen to be one tonne and a metre wide, you’re going to need a bigger jack.
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You may not think dinosaurs and the big bang have much in common, however, creatures from both periods have made their way to Canberra’s city centre for City Illuminations as part of this year’s Enlighten Festival.
NASA's Orion capsule and its test dummies have swooped one last time around the moon, flying over a couple of Apollo landing sites before heading home.
A team of space trackers in the ACT will play a key part in NASA's mission to return a human to the moon, helping provide 24/7 coverage in its first stretch.
The James Webb Space Telescope's inaugural images have opened a new chapter of cosmic exploration, but astronomers say the observatory's most consequential discoveries may well be those they have yet to even imagine.
Boeing's new Starliner crew capsule has docked for the first time with the International Space Station, completing a major objective in a high stakes do-over test flight into orbit without astronauts aboard.
