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...
06 August 2021
Surprising new finds as ASKAP surveys the skies
... across the outback over an area of about six square kilometres at the Murchison Radio Astronomy Observatory in Western Australia. Australia will initially host more than 130,000 SKA antennas with an ultimate goal of expanding this up to a million...
19 November 2021
New mission to search for habitable planets close to Earth announced
... habitable exoplanets reside close to us. Designed in collaboration with the Breakthrough Initiatives in California, Saber Astronautics in Australia and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, TOLIMAN will make extremely fine measurements of stars within...
