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Available either as a hardcover book or via free download, the NASA book "Earth" presents some of the most dramatic images captured from space.

An Australian software engineer, who works at a health tech start-up that uses encryption to protect patient data, has suggested several changes to the Federal Government's encryption legislation which was passed in December.

Australia’s national science agency CSIRO has been selected to provide maintenance and operational support for the European Space Agency’s deep space tracking station at New Norcia in Western Australia.

Researchers at Western Australia’s Curtin University are on science teams for three major current space missions, which coincide with the launch of the university’s new Space Science and Technology Centre, claimed as the largest planetary research group in the Southern Hemisphere.

Moments after lift-off on Thursday evening (Australian time), the Soyuz rocket carrying two crew members to the ISS was aborted.  Both astronauts are reported to be safe.

Blasting off into the chief space officer position at Finnish start-up Space Nation is former NASA astronaut Gregory "Box" Johnson, to advise on the Space Nation Astronaut Program and future ISS missions.

British security researcher Lauri Love has won an appeal against extradition to the US to face charges of allegedly breaching the computer networks of a number of federal government agencies.

A senior cyber security official at the US Department of Homeland Security has told a Congressional panel that she has yet to see any proof that software made by Kaspersky Lab has been exploited to infiltrate US government systems.

British security researcher Lauri Love's appeal against extradition to the US for trial on charges of hacking into NASA, the FBI, and the US Federal Reserve will be heard at the High Court in London on 28 and 29 November.

The Australian Government has signed a treaty with the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, reaffirming an ongoing commitment by both countries to collaborate on space exploration.

The largest contingent ever of Australian students have returned from the Houston Association for Space and Science Education (HASSE) Space School in the US.

Local events around the NASA Space Apps Challenge are happening this weekend, and you can still register as a participant.

Personal computing pioneer Steve Wozniak made a guest appearance - albeit a virtual one - at the GPU Technology Conference.

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) and the Council of ICT Associations (CICTA) want to see action by government and industry to take advantage of what they say are multi-billion dollar digital economy opportunities in Queensland identified at the G20 Summit.

Google could be on the verge of using a historic US navy hangar to test robots, if a deal with NASA proves successful.

Famous for shunning the media spotlight following the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong has opened up over his ground-breaking experiences.

A full set of data from the WISE satellite has been released by NASA including a single-image full-sky chart of space in infrared.

NASA, in conjunction with a variety of international space and science-focussed organisations, is seeking to engage people around the world in a codeathon to develop and improve access to space data from a variety of sources.

Following complications due to Parkinson's Disease, Ralph McQuarrie, the artistic inspiration for pretty-well all of George Lucas' Star Wars world passed away on March 3rd.

Using a java plug-in, NASA's satellite tracker gives viewers a manipulable 3D view of every major satellite in earth-orbit.