The future well-being of NASA space missions may well rest with an innovative instrument utilizing microdosimetry technology devised in Wollongong...
90 years after he expounded his famous theory, a $700m probe has proved that the universe behaves as he said. The early results from Gravity Probe B, one of NASA's most complicated satellites, confirmed 'to a precision of better than 1%' the assertion Einstein made - that an object such as...
For the first time, water has been identified in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet. Water is a crucial ingredient for life as we know it.
Astronomers propose an enormous liquid-mirror telescope on the moon that could be hundreds of times more sensitive than the Hubble Space Telescope.