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New footage captures moment Artemis II crew welcomed home
New footage shows the moment a recovery crew opens the hatch of Artemis II's Orion capsule and welcomes its crew members home after their mission around the Moon.
Should you turn off your laptop while commuting?
While modern laptops are good at saving battery life and keeping cool, extended periods in sleep mode could still be putting a strain on them over time.
The neuroscience behind synaesthesia paints a surprising inner world
Have you ever tasted a word, or seen colours while listening to music? If you have, you may be among the 1 to 4 per cent of people who have a fascinating trait known as synaesthesia.
Backyard astronomer who helped to discover 100 distant planets awarded medal
From a backyard observatory in regional Victoria, Gippsland astronomer Chris Stockdale spends his nights helping confirm distant planets by tracking tiny changes in starlight that reveal new worlds...
'Missed opportunity': Astronomers lament loss of telescope partnership
The Artemis II mission used space technology developed in Australia, but experts fear the axing of a multimillion-dollar telescope partnership may stifle innovation and astronomy.
'This was not easy': Artemis II crew's first comments
Artemis crew members have described their mission as "the greatest dream on Earth" after landing on Saturday and setting a new deep-space travel record.
Why did we go back to the Moon, 50 years after Apollo?
In both 1968 and 2026, a mission to the Moon offered a refreshing blast of positivity for a conflict-ridden world. So what's different now — and what do we really gain from this new moonshot, five...
