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A rock from a presumed ancient lakebed contains complex organic molecules.
The mission will investigate the potential for life at the icy moon of Jupiter.
It’s not easy to collect rocks on a budget when the rocks are 140 million miles away.
The Perseverance rover has arrived at what’s thought to be an ancient shoreline on Mars.
Among the missions being planned is a huge helicopter drone to explore Saturn’s moon Titan.
Liftoff to the distant asteroid is scheduled for Oct. 5, 2023 – the beginning of a six-year journey to one of the most unusual objects in the solar system.
Flying the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars is the equivalent of flying one at about 100,000 feet on Earth. Tricky, considering the highest helicopter flight ever recorded maxed out at 42,000 feet.
Australian scientists have been working on NASA’s latest Mars mission for years.
Australia’s space industry is booming despite the impact of coronavirus.
NASA has released a sound recording from Mars. So what do these literally otherworldly sounds tell us about the processes at play inside the red planet?
An academic describes the career high of working on the most successful mission to Mars, and the little rover that made it possible.
The last signals from Cassini space probe before it burns up in Saturn’s atmosphere will tracked by the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex.
New research provides a compact but powerful way for Mars rovers to communicate directly with Earth via an array of smaller antenna elements, bypassing the need for an intermediary.
“All systems go!” I said cautiously with a long sigh of relief. I had approved plans for the first soil analysis that would give humankind clues to the past and future habitability of Mars. One small word…
Interviewing a spacecraft isn’t something one does every day. It certainly wasn’t an option back in the late 1970s, when Voyager 1 and 2 set off on a mission like no other before or since: to visit some…
Download the full interview with Dr Chamitoff as a podcast by clicking here. For the latest in our In Conversation series, Malcolm Walter, Professor of Astrobiology at the University of New South Wales…
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Professor of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
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Director of The Australian National University Institute for Space and the Advanced Instrumentation Technology Centre, Australian National University
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Facilities Program Director Nasa Operations Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex , CSIRO
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UKSA Mars Science Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
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