The Perseids meteor shower is now showing at your local night-sky theatre, so while you are watching 30 Perseids per hour, or even possibly up to 90 or 100, also take a look at the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter.
New research has found that the evolution of humans was a bit more complex than we thought, and that more species of early humans lived together about 1.7 to 2 million years ago.
A new approach to science education, involving the establishment of a new university-based science organisation, will use the National Broadband Network (NBN) to facilitate the engagement of high school students across the country in emerging fields such as nanotechnology, astrophysics and pharmaceuticals.
The Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) was already working as Curiosity descended toward the Martian surface. Watch the stop-motion video of this historic descent onto Mars.
The first images are in - the Curiosity rover has landed safely.
Want to watch the landing (or otherwise) of NASA's Curiosity Rover on Mars? We show you how.
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