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Rosetta crash lands on comet, ending historic mission
The European Space Agency said the Rosetta spacecraft has crash-landed on a comet after an historic 12 years spent chasing it across more than 6 billion kilometres of space.
The European Space Agency said the Rosetta spacecraft has crash-landed on a comet after an historic 12 years spent chasing it across more than 6 billion kilometres of space.
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A Sydney rocket scientist has just signed a deal to test his ion drive in space.
The future of air safety could lie in the example of Drongo, Nemo and Titan.
It could be an intriguing step on the hunt for alien life on Jupiter's ocean-covered moon.
Physicists at The Australian National University have brought quantum computing a step closer to reality by stopping light in a new experiment.
World's largest single-dish radio telescope, in a majestic but impoverished part of china, looks deep into the universe.
Why small earthquakes stay small, while others grow into monsters is one of the most enduring mysteries in earthquake science but we now have a partial, but tantalising answer: The moon and big tides.
The accolades are given for studies and findings that "make people laugh, and then think."
A piece of the Herald found inside a giant fish shows not much has changed since 1883.
During the 50 years we have been able take photos of Earth from space, we have become somewhat blase about the little blue planet on which we live.
When it was discovered in Israel in 1970, the En-Gedi scroll was clearly in no shape to be read. Now, 40 years alter, researchers
Tiangong 1, China's first space laboratory, will come to a fiery end in late 2017.
Aboriginal Australians are found to have the closest genetic links to Highland Papua New Guinea populations, providing new insights into the movement of early humans following their dispersal from Africa.
By corralling mathematics and science as (male) subjects for the unimaginative and the arts as (female) subjects of expression, we commit educational crimes.
Male redbacks have a previously unknown evolutionary trick to mate more than once.
After 4.5 billion years of existence, Comet 332P is dragging a growing trail of debris 4800 kilometres long.
The Turnbull government has set itself the goal of establishing the CSIRO as the "world's premier public research organisation" within 10 years.
It could soon become easier to remove blood clots or get rid of pesticides from waterways thanks to new research carried out at the Australian National University.
A concerted effort is underway to save the endangered golden shouldered parrot of remote Cape York.
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