The list of countries to achieve their own successful orbital space launch is a short one, almost as small as the exclusive club of states that possess nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union was first off ...

A large chunk of burning detritus discovered in the Pilbara desert of Western Australia appears to be space junk that reentered Earth's atmosphere, the Western Australia Police Force has announced.

What does it take to make a country join the rarefied ranks of orbital launch providers? For Australia, the answer came in a cloud of smoke and an agonizingly brief, hard-fought 14 seconds of airtime.

A U.S. astronaut has captured an image of Australia's second most populated city from the International Space Station. Don Pettit captured the image of Melbourne from the space station on October 9, ...

Australia is known for great beaches, top-tier coffee, and a laidback approach to life that really doesn’t square with all the rules and regulations that exist Down Under. What it isn’t known for is ...

The strange, smouldering metal object discovered in the Australian outback was likely a piece of a Chinese rocket that crashed onto the area, the country’s space agency said. The metal debris with ...