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High school students hand their science projects over to Curtin Uni’s BinarX team. Yavna Shah year 11, Hayden Male year 10, Shauzaf Siddiqui year 9, Ben Hopper year 12 and Pema Tsho Sakhu year 8 with their payloads.

SpaceCommentsSpace program serves as launch pad for student dreams

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

Gilmour Technologies has announced the Eris launch window is July 1 to July 3. Gilmour Technologies

TECHNOLOGYPremiumHistoric Aussie rocket launch just days away

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.

WA NewsCommentsWhere to catch a glimpse of the spectacular full moon in WA

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.

Aurora Images captured over Blue Boat House in Perth on Wednesday 26 March, 2025.

WA NewsCommentsWA in for a show as aurora tipped to light up night sky

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

Antennas of CSIRO's ASKAP radio telescope at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia~|~|VQB1zhMMge

SpaceCommentsDiscovery of cosmic phenomenon scientist can’t explain

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

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NewsBizarre reason for rocket launch delay

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

SpaceX's mega rocket Starship makes a test flight from Starbase, Texas, Tuesday, May 27, 2025.

SpaceComments‘Rapid unscheduled disassembly’: Musk’s Starship blows up

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.

WA NewsCommentsExcitement as WA Police officer finds Mother’s Day meteor

The meteor that lit up the skies over Western Australia in the early hours of Mother’s Day has been located.

Oliver Lane

Gilmour Space Technologies is free to launch a rocket into space from Thursday morning through to Sunday. Gilmour Space Technologies.

UPDATEDMajor update in historic Aussie rocket launch

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

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SpaceCountdown to Aussie space dream begins

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 Western Australia have been stunned as a meteor lit up the skies on Sunday morning. Supplied

NewsOnlooker stunned as ‘fireball’ meteor lights up WA skies

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.

WA NewsVideoCommentsWATCH: ‘One in a million’ fireball lights up Goldfields sky

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.

Oliver Lane

Kosmos 482 - which may look similar to this earlier Venera probe - crashed back on Earth on Saturday.

WA NewsCommentsWA’s ‘lucky escape’ from Soviet-era spacecraft landing

Western Australia has dodged a bullet after avoiding being hit by a defective Cold War era Soviet spacecraft on Saturday afternoon.

Oliver Lane

UWA Professor David Coward, leader of the Space Situational Awareness Node at the ISC and as such leads the Zadko Observatory. He is part of a four-person crew in the Australian contingent of the IAWN.

SpaceCommentsPremiumSlim chance Russian probe Kosmos 482 will hit WA on Saturday

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.

Ben O'Shea

The Eta Aquarids — the cosmic crumbs left behind by Halley’s Comet tails — are set to light up skies across Australia next week.

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Everything you need to know about meteor shower in Perth

It’s happening in just hours and you can expect up to 40 meteors per hour!

Taylor Renouf

Astronomers recommend keeping clear of city lights to get the best view. Time and Date

NewsPremiumHow to catch tomorrow’s epic meteor shower

Millions of Aussies could get the chance to glimpse a dazzling sight as a meteor shower streaks through the night skies on Wednesday morning.

Alexandra Feiam

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NewsPremiumAussies capture incredible footage of meteor

Aussies have captured footage of a meteor blazing through the skies, with people reporting massive booms and even their houses shaking.

Alexandra Feiam

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NEWSPremiumHow to catch tonight’s meteor shower

Here is where, when and how to catch the spectacular Lyrid meteor shower for an incredible astronomical experience.

Summer Liu

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope claim to have found the strongest signs of alien life ever recorded.

THE NIGHTLY‘Biological activity’: Strongest sign of alien life detected

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. 

Max Corstorphan

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope claim to have found the strongest signs of alien life ever recorded.

SpaceComments‘Biological activity’: Strongest sign of alien life detected

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. 

Max Corstorphan

Aurora Images over Blue Boat House on Wednesday 26 March 2025.

WA NewsCommentsAurora stuns as photographers capture light show from Perth

West Australians were treated to an amazing array of lights in the night sky on Wednesday thanks to an Aurora Australis.

Oliver Lane

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams’ space odyssey is finally over after 286 days.

SpaceVideoCommentsWhat’s next for NASA’s no-longer stranded astronauts

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

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have returned to the earth's surface.

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‘Welcome home’: Smiles as astronauts finally return to Earth

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.

Max Corstorphan

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams pose for a portrait inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station's Harmony module and Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on June 13, 2024.

The NightlyHow two astronauts stuck in space will return to Earth

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