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Astronomers in WA have detected a burst of fast radio waves eight billion light-years from Earth as powerful as the sun's total emission over 30 years.

Reports this week suggest a near-collision between an Australian satellite and a suspected Chinese military satellite.

Why do we feel stuck in our efforts to solve the great sustainability crises of the 21st century? Between the dire need to successfully mitigate climate change while making progress on human-focused Sustainable Development Goals, the challenges of the Anthropocene — the era in which we now live — can…

The Kaokoveld region, covering north-western Namibia and south-western Angola, is one of the remotest areas in southern Africa. Although it’s extremely dry, it is a centre of species endemism: many species occur only there and nowhere else on earth.

Imagine a particle so small that it’s the same relative size to a football as that ball is to the planet Earth. That’s the size of a quantum dot – a type of nanocrystal that changes colour depending on its size, and was once thought impossible to actually produce.

A new study describes how massive solar storms could destroy our electrical grids

Eyewitnesses say their houses shook as they heard ‘loud explosion’

Okay, it probably wasn't aliens.

Doreen and Mernda residents describe seeing flash of light followed by ‘massive explosion’ on Wednesday night