Curtin is helping to boost Australia’s space exploration with the construction and launch of it’s very own ‘pocket-sized’ satellite.
By Zoe Taylor | Engineering; Research; Science and technology; Science and Engineering | Leave a comment
Building a celestial city on the rocky red planet is a mind-boggling concept. But this off-world urban challenge has been embraced by Curtin urban planning graduate, Cassie Barrow.
By Anita Shore | Alumni news; Architecture and construction; Humanities; Science and Engineering | Leave a comment
Josh Richards is a Curtin physics graduate who is prepared to give up his life on Earth for the chance to live on Mars and push the boundaries of human discovery.
By Zoe Taylor | Alumni news; Physical sciences and mathematics; Science and Engineering | Leave a comment
Professor Steven Tingay’s work in helping to establish the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy and Murchison Widefield Array has seen him awarded the title of John Curtin Distinguished Professor.
By Curtin University | Research; Science and technology; Science and Engineering | Leave a comment
Why Perth scientists are hoping to score asteroid fragments brought back to Earth by an ambitious space mission.
By Michelle Wheeler | Research; Science and technology; Science and Engineering | Leave a comment
Asteroids and comets formed as a result of cosmic dust and water combining … or did they?
By Nik Malane | Feature; Research; Science and Engineering | Leave a comment
In just a few days, a NASA spacecraft is going to perform a gravitational slingshot around the Earth to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu … and Australia is being awarded one of the closest views.
By Daniel Jauk | Feature; Research; Science and Engineering | Leave a commentAstronomers have made the unexpected discovery of two black holes inside an ancient cluster of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. The research, published today in the prestigious journal Nature, describes the detection of two black holes that are about 10 to 20 times heavier than our Sun in the globular cluster named M22. Read More
By Megan Meates | Research; Physical sciences and mathematicsCurtin University planetary scientists have been selected by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) to undertake geochemical analysis of two of the largest and most precious grains that it recovered from the asteroid Itokawa. The scientists hope to uncover the formation of the asteroid’s age and ultimately contribute new knowledge about the history of the solar Read More
By Megan Meates | Research; Physical sciences and mathematicsSix local primary schools collaborated with the School of Science at Curtin University to host the inaugural ‘Space, Stars and Sharks – Eminent Speakers Event’ last week.
By Teresa Belcher | Campus and community; Physical sciences and mathematicsCRICOS Provider Code: WA 00301J
