With interest in space surging ahead of the International Astronautical Congress, NASA is spruiking its message to young scientists and students in Adelaide.
The greater variability of sea ice cover in Antarctica over the year puts tourist vessels at greater risk of getting stuck, experts meeting in Hobart warn.
At least 12 waterbirds — including one black swan — have died in a lake near Crown Casino and the new Perth Stadium, which is still under construction.
For the first time, the CSIRO will be able to dictate what data is collected by a satellite under a multi-million-dollar deal with a British technology company.
Individually owned cars are underutilised and costly. Autonomous vehicles are already in use in Australia. We could be on the cusp of the fastest, deepest disruption in transportation history.
Sugar Research Australia will for the first time use DNA in its breeding program to help meet what it is describing as an ambitious target to improve the performance of new varieties.
Most Australians would agree they have a right to privacy, a right not to incriminate themselves, and a right to freedom of thought. Mind-reading technology known as brain fingerprinting threatens all three.
Breasts with more fibrous tissue are referred to as "dense". A major Canadian study has found women who have very dense breast tissue are much more likely to develop breast cancer.
It is sometimes argued that attitudes to same-sex marriage are deeply entrenched and attempts to alter them are pointless. However, research suggests peoples' views are more malleable than first thought.
Two killer whales ride waves of their own during a surfing competition in Norway, at the same beach Australian Mick Fanning was photographed riding under the Northern Lights.
No one would normally blink an eye at new animals arriving at an agricultural school, but 50 or so farmers have braved wet weather to watch the state's first widescale spring-active dung beetle release.
Adelaide will be the centre of the space industry universe this week as 4,000 delegates stream through the city for the 2017 International Astronautical Congress. But what's in it for Australia?
With two weeks to go until the World Solar Challenge begins, one team is put under unexpected pressure after their car is delayed on the way from Europe to Australia.
South Australian Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis spends two days touring Tesla facilities in California ahead of Elon Musk's visit to Adelaide this week as part of the International Astronautical Congress.
Researchers at Perth Zoo hope an artificial mud solution created to save a critically endangered frog from extinction could also help other threatened species.
Nepal plans to settle controversy over the height of the world's tallest peak after some estimates suggested it became a little shorter in the wake of an earthquake two years ago.