Marcia Dunn
NASA’s mini-helicopter, Ingenuity, takes flight on Mars
NASA’s experimental Mars helicopter has risen from the dusty red surface into the thin air, achieving the first powered, controlled flight on...
Astronomers think they’ve solved the riddle of inter-stellar visitor Oumuamua – except, maybe, how to pronounce it
Our solar system’s first known interstellar visitor is neither a comet nor asteroid as first suspected and looks nothing like a cigar....
Mars rover hits the red road
NASA’s newest Mars rover hit the dusty red road this week, putting 6.4 metres on the odometer in its first test drive....
NASA rover successfully touches down on Mars after ‘seven minutes of terror’
A NASA rover has touched down on Mars in the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that...
Mission to Mars: Three robots ready to land
After hurtling hundreds of millions of kilometres through space since July last year, three robotic explorers are ready to hit the brakes...
Jupiter, Saturn merge in close conjunction
Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky, appearing closer to one another than they have since Galileo’s time in the...
Asteroid samples escaping NASA spacecraft
A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble that it’s jammed open and precious particles are drifting away in space....
US astronauts in spacecraft dock with International Space Station
SpaceX has delivered two astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA, following up a historic lift-off with an equally smooth docking...
Boeing capsule goes off course, test fails
Boeing’s new Starliner capsule went off course after launch and will not dock with the International Space station during its first test...
Trump greets Apollo 11 astronauts on eve of 50th anniversary of moon landing
Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins have reunited on the eve of the 50th anniversary of humanity’s first moon landing....