STARGATES, wormholes and other portals in time and space will not get aliens here any quicker, according to WA science communicator John Jacob.

TRIBUTES have poured in from around the world to honour the man who has inspired generations of scientists across Australia and internationally.

 

2010 looks set to be a big year for Australia’s international role in space research, with the University of Western Australia’s Zadko project getting the year started with a big bang.

CSIRO has announced Dr Philip Diamond as the new chief of the Astronomy and Space Sciences Division.

DUMBLEYUNG Primary School made WA history last month when students had the opportunity to speak directly to International Space Station (ISS) astronaut, Frank De Winne.

 

A RESTORED set of lost NASA lunar tapes discovered at Curtin University in 2006 hold important clues for keeping out the dust in future missions to the Moon.

 

AHEAD of this year’s astronomy festival, ‘Astrofest’, Professor Fred Watson gives participants a sneak preview of his evening talk on the bizarre and continuing saga of Pluto’s demotion from planet to dwarf-planet.

 

IBM was both excited and proud to announce a partnership with Western Australia’s International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) today, according to IBM managing director of Australia and New Zealand, Glen Boreham.

 

IN a phenomenal lecture on Wednesday night, renowned astrophysicist Dr Charley Lineweaver explored a question that continues to elude even the greatest contemporary minds – is there more than one universe?

 

AEROSPACE and oceanography are both about exploration, NASA astronaut Dr Megan McArthur observed while discussing her leap from undersea to outer space missions during National Science Week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A $2 BILLION radio telescope, tours of the WA night sky and a lecture series that explores parallel universes, black holes and Aboriginal astronomy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EARLIER this year, NASA astronaut Dr Megan McArthur ventured on her first mission into space to service the Hubble Space Telescope and extend its life by at least five years. This week she visits Scitech and The University of Western Australia to deliver a series of talks for National Science Week.

 

AUSTRALIAN astronomers are looking for ‘wiggles’ in distant space to explain why the expanding universe is speeding up.

THANKS to Curtin University of Technology, WA now has Australia’s only Institute of Theoretical Physics, and joins the ranks of global leaders in the research field.

THE birth, life and death of the universe will be discussed at a summer lecture at Perth Observatory on March 6.

THE study of a 4.42 billion year old lunar zircon is letting Curtin University researchers shed new light on the early history of our closest celestial neighbour, and also that of our own planet.

SOLAR cycle 24 is slowly warming up for a decade of tempestuous space weather with a new sunspot, according to forecasts of the Sun’s activity by NASA and the European Space Agency.

THROW away the mobile phone and electric car ... they will be useless in the face of a solar tsunami, according to a new study carried out for NASA.

“The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water - the name of the star is Wormwood." - Revelation 8:10-11

THE shockwave from a doomsday star 10km across would flatten every city on the Australian coast if it struck the centre of the continent. If it struck water, tsunamis would devastate coastal populations.

FROM the discovery of extrasolar planets to the violent birth of black holes near the Big Bang, from the first steps on the Moon to the parachute landing by unmanned probes on other moons in the solar system, astronomers have a lot to celebrate this year.