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Researchers will work to deliver the first-ever optical communications from a 1U CubeSat based on the technology behind Western Australia’s Binar-1 spacecraft as the result of a new partnership between Curtin University’s Space Science and Technology Centre and laser communications company Chascii.

Researchers at Western Australia’s Curtin University have helped to determine the age of the youngest rocks ever found on the Moon, as part of a global space mission that is working to refine the chronology of the entire Solar System.

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.

The first homes outside Europe claimed to utilise blockchain technology for power will be completed in a new housing development in Australia in September this year.

Tesla installer Natural Solar is claiming a Sydney family has saved 92% on electricity bills in the past 12 months with the installation of a Tesla Powerall battery system, paying only $178.71 for electricity for the year.

Australia had plenty of moon units gazing up at Earth's major orbiter early this morning, as a red, dead moondemption eclipsed the threat of ash - but wasn't able to overcome view-marring cloudy weather for some.

Astronomers are studying a planet called Corot-9b, which is about 1,500 light years from Earth, that they say will be studied in great detail because it is very similar to our planets in the Solar System. They think it might be reveal a "gold mine" of information.