Astronomy news

• Your guide to the 'blood moon' total lunar eclipse

  04-09-2025 22:30 via abc.net.au
  
  A total lunar eclipse, also known as a "blood moon", will be visible across all of Australia early in the morning. Here's what you need to know to get the best view and snap the best photo.
  
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• Skies will light up again tonight — but this time, it won't be from fireworks

  02-01-2026 20:10 via abc.net.au
  
  Stargazers will be treated with a supersized wolf moon for the first weekend of the year. Here's what to know. 
  
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• Skies to light up with extra large wolf moon tonight

  02-01-2026 20:10 via abc.net.au
  
  Stargazers will be treated with a supersized wolf moon for the first weekend of the year. Here's what to know. 
  
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• Were you paying attention to the big scientific discoveries of 2025?

  29-12-2025 19:30 via abc.net.au
  
  From dire wolves to dementia risk, this quiz will test your knowledge on some of the biggest science news stories of the year.
  
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• Quiz: Were you paying attention to the big scientific discoveries of 2025?

  29-12-2025 19:30 via abc.net.au
  
  From dire wolves to dementia risk, this quiz will test your knowledge on some of the biggest science news stories of the year.
  
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• Four years on, the JWST is a Christmas gift that keeps on giving

  24-12-2025 19:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Since its launch on Christmas Day 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has stunned astronomers and delighted the world.
  
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• Four years ago today, the future of astronomy was sitting on top of a rocket

  24-12-2025 19:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Since its launch on Christmas Day 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has stunned astronomers and delighted the world.
  
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• Paraplegic engineer becomes the first wheelchair user to blast into space

  21-12-2025 00:16 via abc.net.au
  
  The flight was just 10 minutes but the capsule still managed to soar 105 kilometres up, skimming into space.
  
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• German aerospace engineer Michaela Benthaus becomes the first wheelchair user to go to space

  21-12-2025 00:16 via abc.net.au
  
  German aerospace engineer Michaela Benthaus, who works for the European Space Agency, has become the first wheelchair user in space.
  
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• Object that smashed windscreen unlikely to be anything 'from space'

  19-12-2025 09:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Scientists were hoping an object that smashed the windscreen of a self-driving car in October was a meteorite, but SA Museum's investigation says it remains a mystery.
  
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• How to see Australia's best meteor shower this weekend

  11-12-2025 19:30 via abc.net.au
  
  You'll need to get up early, but the views could be worth it to catch the best glimpse of the Geminids meteor shower this weekend.
  
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• How to see Australia's best meteor shower at its peak early tomorrow

  11-12-2025 19:30 via abc.net.au
  
  You'll need to stay up late or get up early, but the views could be worth it to catch the best glimpse of the Geminids meteor shower.
  
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• How to see Australia's best meteor shower

  11-12-2025 19:30 via abc.net.au
  
  You'll need to stay up late or get up early, but the views could be worth it to catch the best glimpse of the Geminids meteor shower.
  
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• 'No-one expected what we found': Martian discovery got us closer to finding life

  05-12-2025 19:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Scientists said at the time that the flow of water would have filled multiple swimming pools.
  
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• How to see the last supermoon of the year from your city

  04-12-2025 20:55 via abc.net.au
  
  The final supermoon of the year is set to delight stargazers tonight. Here's how to spot it.
  
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• Sound of lightning recorded on Mars for the first time

  26-11-2025 17:04 via abc.net.au
  
  Microphone recordings from NASA's Perseverance rover have turned up more than 50 instances of lightning on the red planet over the past four years, a new study finds.
  
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• Sound of lightning captured on Mars — but it's nothing like on Earth

  26-11-2025 17:04 via abc.net.au
  
  Microphone recordings from NASA's Perseverance rover have turned up more than 50 instances of lightning on the red planet over the past four years, a new study finds.
  
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• Satellite reveals why we could see auroras so far north in Australia last year

  22-11-2025 05:11 via abc.net.au
  
  While last week's stunning auroras delighted many people across Australia, a massive solar storm that hit last year squeezed Earth's protective shield to a fifth of its size, according to new satellite data.
  
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• A bang was heard as a meteor flashed across Kalgoorlie-Boulder

  21-11-2025 04:17 via abc.net.au
  
  CCTV footage shows the flash of light just around half-past-nine on Thursday evening.
  
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• Super-tough moss survives nine months in space strapped to the ISS

  20-11-2025 19:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Moss has the potential to provide food for astronauts of the future, according to a study that exposed one of Earth's oldest plants to the extremes of space travel. 
   
  
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• Moss survived nine months in space outside the ISS before returning to Earth

  20-11-2025 19:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Moss has the potential to provide food for astronauts of the future, according to a study that exposed one of Earth's oldest plants to the extremes of space travel. 
   
  
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• NASA unveils close-up pictures of Comet 3I/Atlas in our solar system

  19-11-2025 22:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Discovered in July this year, the comet known as 3I/Atlas is only the third confirmed object to visit our corner of the cosmos from another star.
  
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• Debate as NASA unveils images of comet soaring through solar system

  19-11-2025 22:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Discovered in July this year, the comet known as 3I/Atlas is only the third confirmed object to visit our corner of the cosmos from another star. But there is an opposing view that "is difficult to explain".
  
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• Comet or mystery? Debate as NASA unveils images of object 29m kilometres away

  19-11-2025 22:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Discovered in July this year, the comet known as 3I/Atlas is only the third confirmed object to visit our corner of the cosmos from another star. But there is an opposing view that "is difficult to explain".
  
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• How Cold War foes became close colleagues — until toilets got in the way

  19-11-2025 19:30 via abc.net.au
  
  It was November 20, 1998, and a rocket wasn't an unusual sight in this remote part of Kazakhstan. But today's cargo was a piece of history that would have seemed impossible just years before.
  
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• How Cold War foes became close colleagues — until toilets get in the way

  19-11-2025 19:30 via abc.net.au
  
  It was November 20, 1998, and a rocket wasn't an unusual sight in this remote part of Kazakhstan. But today's cargo was a piece of history that would have seemed impossible just years before.
  
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• Astronaut and 'trailblazer' named SA's Australian of the Year

  15-11-2025 08:05 via abc.net.au
  
  When Katherine Bennell-Pegg was growing up she was "mesmerised by the stars" — an enthusiasm that motivated her to pursue astronaut training, and has now secured an honour of a different kind.
  
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• They're called the southern lights. But they dazzled Australians further north

  13-11-2025 23:12 via abc.net.au
  
  The strength of the latest geomagnetic storms has seen the aurora australis light up skies across a larger part of the country than usual. 
  
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• Breaking: Blue Origin launches huge rocket carrying twin NASA spacecraft to Mars

  13-11-2025 22:56 via abc.net.au
  
  Blue Origin has successfully launched the 98-metre New Glenn rocket with a pair of NASA spacecraft destined for Mars.
  
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• Blue Origin launches huge rocket carrying twin NASA spacecraft to Mars

  13-11-2025 22:56 via abc.net.au
  
  Blue Origin has successfully launched the 98-metre New Glenn rocket with a pair of NASA spacecraft destined for Mars.
  
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