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There’s a vacancy at NASA, and it may have one of the greatest job titles ever conceived: planetary protection officer. It pays well, between US$124,000 and US$187,000 annually. You get…
Even if you’re not a hardcore astronomy-geek, this month is looking seriously hot for staring up at the sky. In coming weeks we’ll have a lunar and solar eclipse forming…
For the first time, scientists have detected water molecules “glowing” around a planet outside our Solar System, giving us the best evidence yet of an exoplanet with a stratosphere. It’s…
Typhoon Noru is barrelling northwest across the Pacific Ocean and taking aim at Japan, and possibly Korea or China, this weekend. Forecasters are intently tracking the storm. As of Sunday,…
The innermost region of the Sun is hidden from our eyes, and it looks like this stealth has enabled the core to conceal a massive secret. For the first time,…
Our Solar System is littered with chunks of space rocks that whizz around in different orbits and varying speeds – and it’s no big deal until one of those rocks…
An organic compound used in the manufacture of plastics has been detected in the atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. While polymers of the chemical vinyl cyanide have plenty of…
Astronomers have now discovered plenty of exoplanets – planets outside our Solar System orbiting suns like our own – but the hunt for smaller exomoons around these planets goes on.…
If you ask Craig Kletzing, the recordings echo the chirping of crickets. To his wife, they sound like a chorus of alien birds. But there is no life where these…
A key sign of a recession is when the market can’t respond to greater supplies of raw materials with increased demand. Long before this century’s Great Recession the first galaxies…
New research suggests up to half the matter in the Milky Way – including the atoms that make up all of us – could have come from outside our own…
The search for life elsewhere in the universe is one of the most compelling aspects of modern science. Given its scientific importance, significant resources are devoted to this young science…
The most powerful kind of cosmic explosions known to science are called gamma-ray bursts – aka ‘death from space’ – galactic events so fierce their awesome intensity is only surpassed…
An aluminium cargo container, built more than 15 years ago to move large equipment to space, will be transformed into a prototype of a space habitat where astronauts would live…
New research shows that the outskirts of our Solar System are littered with many more large comets than has been previously estimated. These massive icy wanderers can take hundreds or…
There’s way more water locked inside the Moon than we previously thought, according to a new analysis of satellite data. This unexpected finding about our planet’s grey companion is giving…
There’s no denying that the ancient art of origami paper folding has given the world reams of brilliant miniature sculptures, and now NASA wants to take that intricate craftiness off-planet.…