President-elect Donald Trump has joined SpaceX founder Elon Musk for the latest test launch of his Starship rocket, watching on as the vessel spectacularly launched into space before trouble broke out.
Max Corstorphan
Stargazers across the country are set for an out-of-this-world display. Here’s what you need to know.
Sarah Keszler
The Federal Government will cancel a $7bn multi-billion-dollar military-grade satellite communications program announced only 18 months ago, due to “evolving threats in space”.
Ellen Ransley
Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison has landed a surprise new role in Australia’s budding space industry.
Duncan Evans
Hundreds of Aussies were left questioning what they’d seen in the sky after a bright “fireball” was spotted in the early morning sky.
Blair Jackson
WA’s expertise in remote mining operations will make it a leader over other States and nations in the booming space industry, a former NASA engineer believes.
Dylan Caporn
A new rocket thruster could lead to ‘never-ending’ deep-space exploration by converting metals to fuel.
Stargazers will notice the moon is bigger and brighter tonight as it moves about 50,000 km closer to Earth. Here’s the best times to watch the spectacle.
Emma Kirk
Humanity’s biggest telescope, the multibillion-dollar SKA Observatory, was officially ‘born’ in WA’s Murchison this week, beginning a 50-year mission to understand the birth of the universe.
Ben O'Shea
Australia’s first astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg is in the pre-mission assignment phase having just graduated from an intense 13-month European Space Agency training program in Germany.
John Flint
Katherine Bennell-Pegg is The Right Stuff. As smart and daring as the Mercury astronauts celebrated in the Oscar-winning 1983 movie, she has qualified as Australia’s first female astronaut.
Are we alone in the universe? It’s one of the greatest mysteries in science, and a radio telescope 300km north-east of Geraldton just got us a little closer to the answer.
A Perth-designed lunar rover is one of two prototypes competing to be chosen for NASA’s future moon missions.
Katina Curtis
NASA has held a press conference to update the world on two astronauts stranded in space, but it wasn’t good news.
NASA has shared a horrifying update about the two astronauts who have been stranded in space since June, when their Boeing craft malfunctioned.
NASA has shared a horrifying update about the two astronauts who have been stranded in space since June when their Boeing craft malfunctioned.
Australia’s first astronaut is coming to Perth next month to talk all things space with university and high school students, big business and industry representatives, and the wider public.
Hannah Cross
A massive thermonuclear explosion is about to go off in space and the violent rupture will burn brightly in the night.
Two astronauts who should have been back on Earth weeks ago have shared an update on their mental state as they wait in the hope of being returned safely to Earth.
Staff writers
Australians have woken to the shortest day of the year. Here’s what the winter solstice means for you.
Distinguished Professor Steven Tingay’s head is in the stars — but his heart and sense of home are very much planted in WA.
Australia won’t directly experience the awe-inspiring sight of a solar eclipse this year but Aussies can still witness the momentous event. Here’s how.
Devastated teens from at least three Perth schools have been told they are likely to miss out on a Space Camp just weeks before they were due to leave for the life-changing USA trip costing $10,000 a ticket.
Bethany Hiatt
After exclusively announcing the first antenna deployment of the Square Kilometre Array mega-science project, The West Australian can now reveal the first-look images of the radio telescope.
