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The close approach of 81 miles occurred as the crew capsule and its three wired-up dummies were on the far side of the moon. Astronauts will take Orion for a ride around the moon as early as 2024.

If every country used as many resources every year as NZ does, we’d need three planets; our throwaway economy is a big cause of our emissions. We have to do things differently.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Artemis I mission brought Orion on its closest approach to the moon while blasting out on its way to an orbit that will take it farther from the Earth than any previous human-rated spacecraft.

NASA's Orion capsule has reached the moon, whipping around the back side and passing within about 80 miles

The U.N. climate talks in Egypt closed on Sunday with a resolution to address the dual crises of climate change and nature loss, but did little to boost next month's global meeting on biodiversity.

This year, Australia’s prestigious Prime Minister’s Prize for Science has been awarded to a physical oceanographer whose work has had a “transformative impact” on our understanding of Earth’s oceans.

It’s time to work out exactly what to do with a problem that has become increasingly urgent, and severe, with the rise of the digital world.

ANU's Adele Morrison and Si Ming Man among Prime Minister's Prizes for Science recipients

With a visit from aliens and a solar storm on the cards, the world could be in for a bit of a rough year if Baba Vanga's predictions come true

Triton may be an ‘ocean world’, a moon that has a solid ice crust over a liquid water subsurface ocean, which extend the habitable zone to the Kuiper Belt, not just the inner solar system.

The amount of time between aircraft as they land at Toronto Pearson International Airport might seem prosaic to the untrained eye, but there’s a lot more going on than a pilot negotiating the gentle return to earth of hundreds of tons of metal. Every millisecond that passes is tied to…