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.
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.
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.
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.
Astronomers 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
Curtin 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
Six 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.