October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
...lines U2 spy plane pilots. Hammaguir in Algeria and Woomera, Australia, were chosen by the French and British respectively as inland ...rotted but became the target of ‘dark tourism’. Woomera, Australia, though, has seen new life as a recovery area...
08 September 2016
Close encounters of the asteroid kind: 2016 RB1 passes remarkably close to Earth
..., Slovak Republic, and Italy. According to Ernesto Guido, who photographed 2016 RB1 in Siding Spring, Australia, using a remotely-controlled telescope, "It was shining about as brightly as a 12th magnitude star.” The asteroid is a frequent visitor...
05 January 2018
Gilmour Space completes successful test of hybrid rocket engine
In a big leap for Australia’s New Space industry, rocket company ...planets in the solar system. Last year the company, which has operations in Queensland, Australia and Singapore, raised AUD 5 million (USD 3.7 million) in private funding from ...
16 July 2018
Science begins with South Africa's super radio telescope
...’s largest telescope in remote parts of both Africa and Australia. MeerKAT has already begun science operations and one of its...Africa. On top of that will be all of the dishes in Australia. All is all the SKA will use thousands of dishes spanning a...
15 October 2018
SETI partners with MeerKAT to search for alien life
... Virginia, USA, and the Parkes Observatory in New South Wales, Australia; as well as the Automated Planet Finder at Lick Observatory in ...span a million square metres across South Africa and Australia to create the world’s largest radio telescope. “...
28 February 2020
Record-breaking black hole eruption detected by astronomers
...one is really, really massive," says Professor Melanie Johnston-Hollitt at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy in Australia who is a co-author on the research paper detailing the discovery. "And we don't know why it's so big. But it happened...
