Space
James Webb offers new perspective on something closer to home: Jupiter
Scientists are buzzing over new infrared images of Jupiter, including its icy moons which some think could harbour life in their vast undergound oceans.
- by Kenneth Chang
Latest
Australia needs gravity-wave detector to boost scientific standing, says professor
Distinguished physicist Susan Scott wants Australia to take its place among global science heavyweights by building a gravity-wave detector.
- by Stuart Layt
Opinion
NASA
The cosmos reveals itself. Have we lost the ability to be astounded?
NASA’s James Webb telescope peers towards the beginning of time. But confused and jaded in the post-truth period, can we hold a feeling of awe any more?
- by Tony Wright
Opinion
Column 8
Hit twice by a lightning strike
Has there ever been a positive invasion for the invaded?
Explainer
NASA
James Webb sees billions of years into the past. How could it shape the future?
The successor to the Hubble telescope could answer key questions like whether aliens exist and how the universe began. How does Webb work and what does it mean?
- by Sherryn Groch
Scientists locate exact Martian crater that launched ‘Black Beauty’ meteorite
Curtin University astro-geologists used a supercomputer and special algorithm to make the discovery, which will deepen knowledge of the time the solar system formed.
- by Peter de Kruijff
Dying stars and dancing galaxies revealed in spectacular new Webb telescope images
NASA has unveiled a new set of images from its powerful James Webb Space Telescope.
- by Seth Borenstein
Opinion
Astronomy
‘Exquisite’: Marvel of modern engineering reveals our cosmic origins
Never before have we managed to capture this first twinkle, when a young universe stepped out of its dark ages with the ignition of the first stars.
- by Sabine Bellstedt
First James Webb telescope image looks further into space – and time – than ever
The first in a series of images to be released from NASA’s new $15 billion telescope takes humanity closer to the dawn of the universe and the edge of the cosmos.
- by Seth Borenstein
Explainer
Science
Ten years on from the God particle, we may have found a fifth force of nature
It took four decades to find. Homer Simpson predicted it. And, depending on who you ask, it could one day destroy the universe. What’s the Higgs boson? And what is left to discover?
- by Sherryn Groch
A mystery rocket crashed into the moon – and no one (on Earth) is owning up
Some are speculating China could be behind the rocket but scientists aren’t sure.
- by Jamie Johnson