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Supergiant Betelgeuse is smaller and closer than first thought

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Death by spaghettification: Astronomers spot a star being ripped apart by a black hole

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Researchers have found more water below the surface of Mars

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If there is life on Venus, how could it have got there? Origin of life experts explain

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Astronomers create 40% more carbon emissions than the average Aussie. Here’s how they can be more environmentally friendly

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Life on Venus? Traces of phosphine may be a sign of biological activity

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Australia re-enters the space race this week

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A wet summer filled Lake Carnegie - this is what it looked like from space

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The spiderweb of Cooper Creek looks like Mars

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The Flinders Ranges look incredible from space

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Antarctica is the perfect place on Earth for stargazing

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Perseverance: the Mars rover searching for ancient life and the Aussies who helped build it

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As if space wasn't dangerous enough, bacteria become nastier in microgravity

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Why outer space matters in a post-pandemic world

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Australian team set to design next-gen spacesuit

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Hungry black hole among the most massive in the Universe

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Super-Earths discovered orbiting a nearby red dwarf star

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We can all be stargazers – and now is the perfect time to start

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Help set a Guinness world record and measure light pollution

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Almost 90% of astronauts have been men, but the future of space may be female

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SpaceX’s launch gives Australia’s booming space industry more room to fly

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Astronomers have located the source of four immensely powerful fast radio bursts

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Cosmic burst finds the universe's missing matter

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Astronomers find a ‘cosmic ring of fire’ from 11 billion years ago

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Why astronomy matters in times of crisis

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Got rhythm? Astronomers listen to the heartbeats of pulsing stars

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Using a pocket rocket to explore distant planets

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The mystery of the giant X-shaped galaxy with a monster black hole as its engine

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Mars rover's methods for finding signs of life given Flinders Ranges test

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Debris from Halley’s Comet will light up the sky this week

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Mining resources in space - what's legal and what's not?

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Measurements of a distant quasar suggest one of the universe's constants is weirdly inconsistent

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Hubble turns 30 - The images that changed our view of the universe

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Hungry galaxies grow fat on the flesh of their neighbours

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Taking apart the Milky Way finds which parts were stolen from other galaxies

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A 'pre-teen' Hot Neptune with two suns lets astronomers watch a star system evolve

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The biggest bang since the Big Bang

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In Class With... Neil deGrasse Tyson

Two satellites just avoided a head-on smash. How close did they come to disaster?

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A vampire star has been spotted sucking the life from its victim

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Dr Karl - What question keeps you up at night?

Yarrabubba is Earth's oldest known asteroid strike - and it may have ended an ice age

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A meteorite that fell on Australia 50 years ago contains the oldest material on Earth

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2020 promises to be a better year for meteor showers - here's when to look up

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Over 150 years old, destroyed by a bushfire, now this epic Aussie telescope is on its way back

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New clues to the Milky Way's age

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Fireball over SA could have been a rarely seen “Minimoon”

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Astronomers spot the brightest light in the universe from a colossal explosion

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Incredible image of galactic centre reveals a supernova likely seen by Indigenous Australians

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Lessons from an astronaut: "We have to teach students how to fail"

Milky Way's supermassive black hole flings star across the galaxy

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Speaking to spacecraft from outback WA

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A monster galaxy found lurking in the shadows

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10 Australian space innovations you need to know about

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The Andromeda galaxy's cannibalistic past

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Galaxy surrounded by a surprising calm bubble of gas

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Australia's know-how makes it a perfect $150m partner for NASA

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Australia partners with NASA: here's what you need to know

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Columbia: NASA blew it

Why India's moon mission should be classed a success

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From outback to outer space - Pilbara rocks hold clues to finding life on Mars

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Where Does Space Begin?

Kessler Syndrome: What happens when satellites collide?

Charles Camarda on becoming an astronaut

Saturn's wind mystery is starting to unravel

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Did scientists just detect a black hole eating a neutron star?

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Why isn't Australia in deep space?

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The Bachelor Matt Agnew is a real astrophysicist – this is what he does

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Astronomers see the Sun’s future in a dying star

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How the moon landing changed the world

13 minutes

Alex the Astronaut goes behind the scenes of Apollo 11

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Alan Duffy on what it took to get humans to the Moon

Do aliens exist? Brian Cox explains

From Apollo to Pulsars: Parkes still dishing out the discoveries

Brian Cox on black holes

The strange story of Neil Armstrong’s bag

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After 50 years, Apollo’s moon rocks still have much to give

10 minutes

Australia's 60,000 years of space history

Australian astronomers track down the source of elusive fast radio burst

6 minutes

Massive galaxy collision produces a 100-million degree shockwave

4 minutes

Why the next generation of rockets will be powered by methane

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Australian astronomers transmit car sounds into space, because why not?

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Aurora Australis will be visible from parts of Australia this week

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How to tell if an asteroid is going to kill you

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Australian astrophysicists detect ancient star-crash

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Eta Aquariid meteor shower set to light up night sky

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The rocket competition launching Australia's future

7 minutes

Bizarre black hole shoots plasma every which way

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Bad news for the loneliest dwarf planet

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Walk among the telescopes of the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory

2 minutes

Space tourism – a launch Australia can’t afford to miss

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SmartSatCRC launched with the biggest space industry investment in Australia

3 minutes

In the Shadow of a Black Hole

Astronomers react to the first images of a black hole

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Aussie researcher on a mission to Mars

5 minutes

In Class With... Brian Cox

The search for dark matter literally finds gold

4 minutes

Zettabytes, Satellites and Industry 4.0 – How Australia can win in the new space frontier

8 minutes

In search of the ghosts of dead galaxies

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Satellite mission control set for launch

4 minutes

Thank Earth’s magnetic field for water that gives you life

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Massive meteorite craters found in Western Australia and Central America

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Engineering the Square Kilometre Array

4 minutes

The Australian Space Agency has merch, and we want it all

1 minute

Space technology predicts droughts several months in advance

Faint stellar glow reveals the location of dark matter in galaxy clusters

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'Fossil' from the Big Bang discovered in distant universe

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Look up tonight for two stunning astronomical sights

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Project to make ground-based telescopes ‘three times sharper than Hubble’

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Australian Space Agency to establish HQ in Adelaide

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Australian ears critical as Voyager 2 leaves the solar system

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Astronomers witnesses first moments of a star's death in finest detail

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Gravitational waves: biggest black hole merger ever detected revealed

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Young stars push back to keep the universe ‘vibrant’

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Astronomers find massive “ghost galaxy” near the Milky Way

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There’s an epic fight under way on the outskirts of the Milky Way

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How the calculator that helped discover Pluto ended up in Australia

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Researchers develop AI bot to recognise galaxies

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Faster-than-light detection following cosmic collision not what it appears

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Stand down. Binary star system is not about to explode

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Ancient cosmic rays mapped in close galactic neighbours

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Massive gas jets seen streaming from early universe galaxy

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Cosmic monster churns out new stars

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When Galaxies Collide

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Space pic of the week: The first photo of Earth from space

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The planet KELT-9b literally has an iron sky

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Space pic of the week: Parker Solar Probe launch

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NASA sets the controls for the heart of the sun

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When and how to watch the 2018 Perseid meteor shower

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Space pic of the week: Asteroid close-up

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The star that wouldn't die

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Some planetary scientists are still crying about Pluto

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Terraforming Mars no plan(et) B

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Space pic of the week: Hubble snaps Mars and Saturn's portraits

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Milky Way’s long-lost sibling found

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Huge lake of water found under the surface of Mars

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Get ready for the longest Lunar Eclipse of the century

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The search for the signature of life on Europa might have just gotten easier

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German astronaut makes surprise guest appearance from space at Kraftwerk concert

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Sausages, SPHERE, and Mother's Day: Astro Morning Tea with ICRAR

Space junk, Einstein, and star colours: Astro Morning Tea with ICRAR

Space junk, Einstein, & star colours: Astro Morning Tea with ICRAR (Captioned)

King of the Planets now King of the Moons

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IceCube blazar neutrino detection: Astro Morning Tea with ICRAR

IceCube blazar neutrino detection: Astro Morning Tea with ICRAR (Captioned)

Watch the demolition of two historic launch towers at Cape Canaveral

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YE5! Single asteroid is actually two locked in an astronomical embrace

4 minutes

Cosmic neutrinos traced to their source for the first time

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Kip Thorne, and why he kept his LIGO scoop under wraps for months

9 minutes

New chip can produce fuel and oxygen in space

4 minutes

The spooky sounds of Saturn

2 minutes

Time in space flattens your eyes

1 minute

Space pic of the week: The story of a gigantic Aussie crater

2 minutes

Einstein’s theory passes the biggest test of its life

4 minutes

Astronomers watch a planet form, as it happens

4 minutes

What are black holes?

Space pic of the week: Curiosity's view of the Martian dust storm

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Exoplanet 500 light years away could be Earth’s twin

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Ingredients of life found on Enceladus

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Martian crystals reveal a rocky start

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Turns out our interstellar visitor is a comet after all

4 minutes

Astronaut Peggy Whitson calls it a day

6 minutes

Astronomer Karlie Noon embraces Indigenous science, education and equality

7 minutes

How will the Universe end?

Curiosity rover snaps a selfie as dust mega-storm moves in

1 minute

Atmosphere is holding Venus back

1 minute

Why the General Theory of Relativity is not just for physicists

6 minutes

Space pic of the week: Valentina Tereshkova

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A new baby planet sighted in Milky Way

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No news from Opportunity in Martian mega-storm

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Space pic of the week: The first US spacewalk

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Solid methane dunes are Pluto's latest surprise

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Space pic of the week: Rosetta's gifts from comet 67P

5 minutes

What we learnt from Stargazing Live: Episode 3

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What we learnt from Stargazing Live: Episode 2

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What we learnt from Stargazing Live: Episode 1

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The interstellar immigrant in our own backyard

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Stars formed ‘soon’ after the Big Bang

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Ben McAllister - The ORGAN Experiment: Shining a light on dark matter

First details of Australia’s space agency announced

6 minutes

Space pic of the week: Foggy launch for InSight

2 minutes

ABC Stargazing Live and ANU to break a world record

2 minutes

Space pic of the week: Rainbows over La Silla

2 minutes

NASA’s Mars InSight launches this week

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Federal budget to allocate $50 million for Australian space agency

4 minutes

Introducing the Starfox Telescope

The Earth’s magnetic field is not about to flip

2 minutes

NASA kills off its only lunar rover

10 minutes

Space pic of the week: Fire and Fury

2 minutes

Space pic of the week: Happy birthday Hubble Space Telescope

2 minutes

Diamonds in meteorite are the last remnants of early Solar System proto-planet

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NASA's TESS launches today

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Space pic of the week: Yuri Gagarin

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Outback radio telescope listens in on interstellar visitor

5 minutes

Tour the Moon in 4K with new video from NASA

1 minute

Space pic of the week: The gullies of Mars

2 minutes

There could be swarms of black holes in the centre of our galaxy

7 minutes

CERN measures anti-matter with all new precision

3 minutes

A BRITE idea discovers the nature of a supergiant star's wind

7 minutes

The aliens might be dead anyway

4 minutes

Hubble spots the most distant star ever seen

6 minutes

Fire your name into the Sun

4 minutes

The atomic galaxy that has astronomers puzzled

6 minutes

Chinese space station Tiangong-1 headed to Earth this weekend

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What happens when Cosmic Giants meet Galactic Dwarfs?

Australian astronomers witness death throes of a cocooned star

Space pic of the week: Soyuz headed for launch

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On This Day: Gemini III, the first dual-crewed US spacecraft

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Spinning supermassive black hole rips a star apart

Space pic of the week: The Stellar Nursery

2 minutes

How Australia's politicians see our future in space

Stephen Hawking dies, aged 76

3 minutes

Astronomers discover galaxies spin like clockwork

3 minutes

Space pic of the week: Jupiter's octagon of cyclones

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Juno reveals continent-sized cyclones on Jupiter

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Supernovae, the Moon, & our Universe: Astro Morning Tea with ICRAR

Supernovae, the Moon, & our Universe: Astro Morning Tea (Captioned)

The final frontier, Down Under

8 minutes

Looking up for our future in space

16 minutes

The space jobs of the future

4 minutes

Keeping satellites in the loop

What the Australian space agency must do

10 minutes

A young professional's view of space

7 minutes

Space pic of the week: The swirling clouds of Jupiter

1 minute

A new signal from the very beginning of the universe

7 minutes

Life is out there… maybe

5 minutes

Opportunity’s 5,000 sols on Mars

7 minutes

We're living in the aftermath of a galactic tidal wave

5 minutes

Space pic of the week: A rose made of galaxies

4 minutes

Amateur astronomer snaps a surprise supernova at its birth

5 minutes

The SKA - An international affair

On This Day: John Glenn becomes the first US astronaut to orbit Earth

3 minutes

We just can't wait to meet those aliens

5 minutes

Space pic of the week: ISS photobombs the Moon!

1 minute

In a galactic tug of war, the Milky Way is not as disadvantaged as we thought

3 minutes

A down-to-Earth journey to 'Mars' gets under way

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Space junk, galaxy shapes, and cheese: Astro Morning Tea with ICRAR

Space junk and galaxy shapes: Astro Morning Tea (Captioned)

The 10 best photographs from the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch

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Simulation of the cataclysmic supernova SN1987A

Everything you need to know about the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch

6 minutes

Researchers reveal a little more of the TRAPPIST-1 story

4 minutes

Curiosity captures the sweeping Martian landscape from Gale Crater

3 minutes

Astro image of the week: glory out of the gloom

4 minutes

Chinese scientists to test a laser so powerful it could rip apart empty space

4 minutes

Fumes, dark energy, and black death: Astro Morning Tea with ICRAR

Fumes & dark energy: Astro Morning Tea with ICRAR (Captioned)

Have we been looking for life on other planets the wrong way?

6 minutes

The chocolate chip cookie dough theory of Earth's mantle

3 minutes

Hidden Galaxies: in the zone of avoidance

Let Jupiter be the yardstick when defining new planets, physicist suggests

3 minutes

What gives feeding black holes a bad case of wind?

7 minutes

Rocket Lab shows that small is beautiful with historic launch

2 minutes

A blue blood supermoon is coming

4 minutes

Titan's secrets unveiled in unprecedented detail in new topographic map

4 minutes

Cleaning up our space junkyard

13 minutes

Galaxies, black holes, and turkeys: Astro Morning Tea with ICRAR

Galaxies and black holes: Astro Morning Tea with ICRAR (Captioned)

Discover the GLEAM galactic survey

Discover the GLEAM galactic survey (Captioned)

NASA discovers giant ice deposits just under the Martian surface

7 minutes

NASA takes us on a virtual journey to the centre of the galaxy with 360° views

2 minutes

Is this the source of mysterious galactic radio bursts?

6 minutes

To the stars and beyond – reasons to look up in 2018

18 minutes

Space junk - how it got there and what we're going to do with it

1 minute

NASA tests & data storage: Astro Morning Tea (Captioned)

NASA tests, Matter & Data storage: Astro Morning Tea with ICRAR

2018 shapes up to be a huge year in physics and astronomy

6 minutes

The 'missing satellite problem'

Robotic return trip to comet and drone exploration of Titan, are NASA finalists for future missions

2 minutes

The water within Mars

4 minutes

Cosmic rays might lead to cloudy days - but claims of affecting climate change look exaggerated

7 minutes

Christmas is in the air at Astro Morning Tea

Christmas is in the air: Astro Morning Tea (Captioned)

To Mars and back - health impacts from radiation in space

13 minutes

How Google and artificial intelligence helped NASA find a missing exoplanet

2 minutes

Astronomy is great in any sign language

2 minutes

Everything you want to know about the SKA's Murchison Widefield Array

1 minute

Flavia Tata Nardini on women in engineering

Flavia Tata Nardini on the future of the internet

Life's building blocks may have been created in space

4 minutes

Quasar from the dawn of time gives window on infant Universe

2 minutes

Particles and moon caves: Astro Morning Tea with ICRAR (Captioned)

Particles, moon cave, and bombs: Astro Morning Tea with ICRAR

Latest images from Juno's close fly-by of Jupiter

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Exoplanet's atmosphere unlike anything we have seen before

2 minutes

Recent claims about dark matter’s existence shed little light on the subject

8 minutes

Fly though the Universe with the GAMA survey

Fly though the Universe with the GAMA survey (captioned)

From the outback to orbit: Why doesn't Australia celebrate its achievements in space?

6 minutes

The challenger to WRESAT's crown

10 minutes

Fifty years since Australia beat the world to space

WRESAT: When Australia beat the world to space

13 minutes

Canberra scientists launch their first satellite into space

3 minutes

Help nickname NASA’s new target

3 minutes

Winter arrives with a vengeance on Saturn's moon Titan

2 minutes

Astro Morning More - The story of zero and the disappearing star

1 minute

The number zero, a vanished star, & going batty: Astro Morning Tea with ICRAR

Zeroes and vanished stars: Astro Morning Tea (Captioned)

Scientists deliver verdict on visitor from interstellar space

2 minutes

If positrons don't come from pulsars, are they evidence of dark matter?

2 minutes

Astro Morning More - Investigating WASP 19b

1 minute

Getting in sync with the SKA

9 minutes

MiRaTA CubeSat launch could revolutionise the way we think of weather satellites

3 minutes

ESA Astronauts head back to school

2 minutes

Columbus, Caterpillars and WASP: Astro Morning Tea with ICRAR

Astronomers spy one of the first-ever galaxies to form

2 minutes

New NASA instrument to focus on Enceladus

2 minutes

Exoplanet Kepler-13AB Rains Sunscreen

3 minutes

Sailing Through Space with Bill Nye

How does a radio telescope work?

New Space Tech with Andrea Boyd

ISS, Illegal activity and Pineapples: Astro Morning Tea with ICRAR

ISS and Pineapples: Astro Morning Tea (Captioned)

Einstein's Gravitational Waves

4 minutes

Kelly Meets the Mars Curiosity Rover

Who Decides the Law in Space?

Australia’s History and Future in Space

4 minutes

Gravitational Waves Discovery Reveals a Cosmic Collision of Epic Proportions

7 minutes

Scientists Watch Collision That Created Gravitational Waves

ANU Science On Location: Siding Spring Observatory

Gravity, Plutomania and the Day Comedy Dies: Astro Morning Tea with ICRAR

Gravity and Plutomania: Astro Morning Tea (Captioned)

Small Satellites

1 minute

Eyes On The Ground Help the View From Space

5 minutes

Explore Murchison - Australia's SKA site

Lockheed Martin's plans for Mars Base Camp

1 minute

Elon Musk's Mars Plan: Expert Analysis

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