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The acorn-shaped object stunned authorities when it washed ashore at Green Head, about 220 kilometres north of Perth on June 17.

For the first time in a long time, August this year will have the unusual distinction of having two sturgeon supermoons.

A top Pentagon official has attacked this week's widely watched congressional hearing on UFOs.

The US is concealing a longstanding program that retrieves and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects, a former Air Force intelligence officer testified on Wednesday.

The images, captured by Maxar Technologies, show just how vast the area currently being burnt across the European nation is.

An image of Rho Ophiuchi, the closest-star-forming region to Earth has been revealed by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which is a year old this month.

Whatever goes up, must come down, and sometimes that comes with a big price tag.

A famous quote says that any technology that is advanced enough often seems like magic.So when things wash up on the beach that nobody can recognise, people are quick to speculate on their mysterious origins.

A mystery object believed to be space junk has been removed from a Western Australian beach as questions swirl about where it came from and where it will end up.

Residents from rural Queensland to Melbourne posted on social media with different theories of what they saw but many weren't quite right.

The Webb Space Telescope is marking one year of cosmic photographs with one of its best yet: the dramatic close-up of dozens of stars at the moment of birth.

Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he may have found fragments of alien technology from a meteor that landed in the waters off of Papua, New Guinea in 2014.

From the top of the tallest mountain in the pacific, to the sets of hollywood blockbusters: these are the world's largest Telescopes.

It was a bit overcast on much of the east coast as the brightest moon of the year so far rose but the rest of the world gave us a preview a nigh earlier.

If you look up at the skies tonight and catch a glimpse of the moon, it will look a little different.

A European space telescope blasted off Saturday on a quest to explore the mysterious and invisible realm known as the dark universe.

Virgin Galactic's rocket-powered plane, carrying two pilots, soared into the upper atmosphere on its third mission to reach space on Saturday morning.

Scientists have observed for the first time the faint ripples caused by the motion of black holes that are gently stretching and squeezing everything in the universe.

Mars' landscape is covered with incredible mountain ranges, sand dunes and ice caps.

The sun sets as seen between buildings along 42nd Street in New York during a phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge.

Earthlings have been given awe-inspiring glimpses of our home galaxy in this stunning selection of photographs.

The study is a first step by the US space agency in trying to explain mysterious sightings in the sky.

The mission is the latest space project by the oil-rich nation after it launched a spacecraft to mars. This time they're looking to go even further beyond.

The International Space Station has rolled out the welcome mat for two Saudi visitors, including the kingdom's first female astronaut.

Saudi Arabia’s first astronauts in decades have rocketed toward the International Space Station on a chartered multimillion-dollar flight Sunday.

People across the state have reported seeing mysterious bright blue and green flashes in the sky, followed by a boom.

The Perseverance rover has captured new images that appear to reveal geologic evidence of a fast-flowing river that fed into Jezero Crater, the site of an ancient Martian lake.

Commercial suborbital flights slashing international journey times will be available over the coming decade, a new study said.

A bus-sized asteroid will make its way past Earth today, while even larger asteroids are expected to blaze past our planet in the next few days.

Both a lunar eclipse and meteor shower will pass across our skies this weekend.

The finding highlights new, potentially fertile areas in the warmer regions of Mars where conditions might be suitable for life to exist, though more study is needed.

An intense solar storm has the northern lights gracing the skies farther south than usual.

When a meteorite smacked into the red planet recently, the Insight lander detected seismic waves beneath its surface.

Leaked CIA files show Beijing's ambitions in space warfare, reports said.

SpaceX's new rocket, the biggest and most powerful ever built, has blasted off on its first test flight, thundering into the South Texas sky before blowing apart minutes later.

More than 20,000 people cheered as moon covered the sun for the 62-second event at 11.29am, while others shed a few tears.

The sun will completely disappear behind the moon over Ningaloo, 1200 kilometres north of Perth, at 11:27am AWST.

A 270kg satellite is on track to crash into Earth sometime in the next day.

Thousands will inundate the tiny remote town for an opportunity not to be missed.

A European spacecraft rocketed away Friday on a decade-long quest to explore Jupiter and three of its icy moons that could have buried oceans.

Tropical Cyclone Ilsa was the most damaging weather event in Western Australia in more than a decade.

NASA has produced a recreation of Mars for four volunteers to live in for a year to help prepare astronauts for exploration of the planet.

NASA has named the four astronauts who will fly around the moon late next year, including the first woman and the first African American assigned to a lunar mission.

Scientists are puzzled by a black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy after it suddenly adjusted its angle to sprew radiation directly toward Earth.

Grab your binoculars and keep an eye to the sky this week for a chance to see a remarkable planetary hangout.

Since time immemorial, humans around the world have gazed up in wonder at the night sky.

Some lucky Australians may be treated to a stunning light show tonight as a geomagnetic storm is forecast to make the Aurora Australis visible.

An asteroid big enough to wipe out a city will zip harmlessly between Earth and the moon's orbit this weekend, missing both celestial bodies.

They're a big change to the puffy white suits worn on earlier lunar landings.

An asteroid on a possible trajectory to collide with Earth in 23 years time has raced to the top of the European Space Agency's risk list.