The Latest Breaking News on Space

This course takes college students out of this world – and teaches them what it takes to become space pioneers

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

The Conversation · Dec 5, 2022

How to see the Cold Moon this week - and a planetary alignment

This week's phemonenon is also called the Long Night Moon

Wales Online · Dec 5, 2022

Are we alone in the universe? Aussie space observatory could unlock the answer

Australia is stepping into space exploration, beginning with the construction of the world’s largest radio astronomy observatory.

The New Daily · Dec 5, 2022

Square Kilometre Array Telescope construction begins in West Australian outback

More than 100,000 antennas will be built across 74 kilometres of WA's Murchison region to create the world's biggest telescope, as part of a $3 billion project to better understand the universe.

ABC News · Dec 5, 2022

In Australia and South Africa, construction has started on the biggest radio observatory in Earth's history

Construction of the world’s biggest radio astronomy facility, the SKA Observatory, begins today. The observatory is a global project 30 years in the making.

The Conversation · Dec 5, 2022

‘Are we alone in the universe?’: work begins in Western Australia on world’s most powerful radio telescopes

More than 100,000 antennas will be built on Wajarri country, enabling astronomers to peek billions of years back to the ‘cosmic dawn’

The Guardian - AU · Dec 4, 2022

What does it take to be an astronaut? After dreaming of the stars, I decided to find out

I got very close to becoming a European Space Agency astronaut, but the final lesson was a bittersweet one, says doctor Kevin Fong

The Guardian - UK · Dec 4, 2022

5 of history’s craziest coincidences

Are coincidences just random acts, or the work of fate or God? You be the judge for these five extraordinary coincidences.

Los Angeles Times · Dec 4, 2022

Chinese astronauts return to earth after 'successful' six-month mission

Three Chinese astronauts landed back on earth on Sunday on board the re-entry capsule of the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft, state broadcaster CCTV reported, bringing to an end a six-month mission on China's space station.

Reuters · Dec 4, 2022

Astronomers spot an incoming small asteroid — and make a big breakthrough

That meteor, now known as 2022 WJ1, was first noticed by the Catalina Sky Survey at around midnight EST on the 19th (the time zone in which it ended up landing).

Inverse · Dec 3, 2022