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Picture Perfect Landing At Jezero
As America passes 500,000 tragic covid deaths, it celebrates a flawless, tour-de-force…
Shooting At The International Space Station
Action adventure star Tom Cruise is set to make a movie in…
The 21st Century’s Moon Race
A look at the very ambitious plan for NASA and its international…
Looking For Life Under Europa’s Ice
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, set to launch to Jupiter in 2024, will…
Amid The Pandemic, NASA’s Perseverance Rover Launches Safely To Mars
Despite serious challenges on Earth, NASA has succeeded in launching the most…
NASA Astronauts Ride Crew Dragon To ISS
A glaring hole in US space capability is finally filled after the…
Humankind Grounded By Covid-19
Several space missions have been delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic. And it’s…
UAE’s Hope Orbiter Heading To Mars
Mars is a busy place in 2020. Four more spacecraft are set…
Solar Orbiter Launched To The Sun’s Poles
Sunday February 9, 2020 saw the successful launch of an Atlas V…
Precision Landing For Mars 2020 At Jezero
As its July 2020 launch date approaches, more information is coming to…
International Cooperation And Competition In Outer Space
Australia’s prime minister signs deal to be part of America’s ambitious plans…
Inflatable Space Habs – Stronger, Safer, Faster, Lighter, Cheaper
Bigelow Aerospace could provide NASA with its B330 space habitat to use…
Orbiting Space Hotel
NASA wants to gradually commercialise the International Space Station and is offering…
NASA’s Drone Mission To Saturn’s Moon Titan
The US space agency will launch a nuclear-powered drone to the solar…
Moon Shot 2.0
The US government wants to send people back to the Moon by…
Pristine Batch Of Lunar Surface Samples To Be Opened
Three containers of sealed moon rocks will soon be opened 50 years…
AZURE – Adding Artificial Colour To The Northern Lights
Launched from Norway, NASA’s Auroral Zone Upwelling Rocket Experiment dropped gases through…
A Helicopter For Mars
In addition to hunting for microbes, testing oxygen production and caching rock…
Book Review – Chasing New Horizons
A ripping yarn about the hugely successful New Horizons mission to Pluto…
Deep Space Update – Oppy, InSight And New Horizons
Efforts intensify to revive the Opportunity rover, silent on Mars since June…
InSight Mission Begins On Mars
Finally, after technical issues delayed the mission by 2 years, NASA’s latest…
Out Of Fuel, The Dawn Mission To Vesta And Ceres Concludes
After 11 years in space and historic orbits of 2 separate objects…
Winners And Finalists Of Little Big Idea Competition
Kids are amazing: energised and enthusiastic about science, tech and how to…
Star Explorer – Parker Solar Probe On Course For The Sun
After a perfect course-refining engine burn on August 20, NASA’s first dedicated…
Still No Word From The Opportunity Rover
Oppy remains silent at Meridiani Planum as a global dust storm envelops…
Weekly News From Beyond Infinity 3/7/18
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Our weekly news round-up: NASA’s InSight lander will probe the Martian interior;…
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Trump’s Plans For The US Space Program
The US Administration’s budget request for NASA includes politically-motivated cuts to earth…
Australia Gets Its Own Space Agency
At the 68th International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Senator Simon Birmingham, federal…
Weekly News From Beyond Infinity 29/8/17
Our weekly news round-up: Chinese required to use their real names when…
NASA’s Mission To The Sun
The first spacecraft designed to visit a star, the Parker Solar Probe…
Weekly News From Beyond Infinity 9/5/17
Our weekly news round-up: Global fallout from Fukushima declared to be minimal;…
Weekly News From Beyond Infinity 2/5/17
Our weekly news round-up: Cassini passes safely between Saturn’s cloud tops and…
Improved Habitability At Jupiter And Saturn
A NASA sudy points to mounting evidence that conditions on the ocean…
Weekly News From Beyond Infinity 11/4/17
Our weekly news round-up: NASA outlines what its new heavy lift rocket,…
Curiosity Rover Wheel Damage Worsens
Showing the first signs of serious damage, two wheel grousers have broken…
Weekly News From Beyond Infinity 14/3/17
Our weekly news round-up: Is Elon Musk the answer to South Australia’s…
Weekly News From Beyond Infinity 7/3/17
Our weekly news round-up: NASA will send an orbiter to Psyche, a…
Spitzer Finds Seven Rocky Exoplanets
NASA announces the discovery of a cluster of Earth-sized terrestrial planets a…
Should Australia Have Its Own Space Agency?
The time has come for the continent downunder to set up its…
Kepler Reveals Weather On An Exoplanet
The planet hunting space telescope continues to amaze with world-first observations of…
To Mars In 70 Days With NASA’s EM Drive
A promising rocket propulsion technique stirs up controversy in scientific circles. It…
Weekly News From Beyond Infinity 15/11/16
Our weekly news round-up: Super Moon a harbinger of earthquakes?; Trump to…
Space Exploration Update
Spectacular canyons imaged on Mars and Saturn’s moon, Titan, and NASA’s new…
Weekly News From Beyond Infinity 9/8/16
Our weekly news round-up: NASA’s super slo-mo camera details SLS booster plume;…