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A CSIRO decision to cut 92 climate science jobs is likely to keep Australians in the dark and be felt beyond these shores, critics say. The agency announced the cuts yesterday (May 21) despite a recent federal budget allocation of […]
Another space capsule has made a safe return to the Koonibba Test Range, near Ceduna, on South Australia’s Far West Coast. Local company Southern Launch oversaw the launch and return of the Varda Space Industries W-6 capsule; it carried next-gen
Antarctica may be flipping from its role as a global climate buffer to that of an amplifier, new research says. An international study published in the Science Advances journal warns that the South Pole is flipping under a cascade of climatic changes in
Four astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft have set a distance record for humanity then set it again in ‘quick’ succession. As of Tuesday morning (AEST), they had travelled 406,771 kilometres from Earth at their most distant point to break the record
Amateur astronomers in Victoria, NSW and Queensland have been busy – and they have been honoured by the Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) for their efforts. The astronomers were all awarded the Page Medal, named after amateur astronomer Berenice Page
Argo the robot float has given Antarctic researchers a rare view of the frozen south – from below massive ice shelves. For nearly three years, it measured the temperature and salinity of the ocean underneath floating ice shelves in East
The CSIRO is to cut 350 research jobs amid a new, more strategic, focus that takes in critical minerals and iron and steel production. The move has been condemned by the staff union and defended by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
At 4300 years-old and weighing five tonnes, a stone doorway for the dead has become a monumental sign of a US museum’s plans to recreate ancient Egyptian life. The five-tonne ‘false door’ is part of plans for a 1300-square metre
New Zealand is weighing up a ten-fold increase in rocket launches amid plans to double the size of its aerospace industry by 2030. Space Minister Judith Collins told the New Zealand Aerospace Summit in Christchurch this week that the government wants
Talks to restore off-site power to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant are under way between the UN, Ukraine and Russia. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General, Rafael Mariano Grossi says he is discussing “detailed proposals” on restoring off-site power
