Katy Perry to rocket into space
Katy Perry will ‘shoot across the sky’ for real, after Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin announced the pop princess will be the ‘star’ of its next suborbital spaceflight as part of a historic all-female crew
Katy Perry will ‘shoot across the sky’ for real, after Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin announced the pop princess will be the ‘star’ of its next suborbital spaceflight as part of a historic all-female crew
Australian stargazers have a special opportunity to see seven planets strung across the night sky in one majestic arc this week – a rare astronomical event that won’t be back until 2040
The moment a pair of chatbots decide to abandon English and speak to each other in a private computer software language raises some great ethical questions about AI – what do you think?
Landmark new evidence points to a unique food chain led by a previously undiscovered carnivorous dinosaur that roamed the Australian continent over 100 million years ago
International space agencies are looking at ways to eliminate recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 if it threatens Earth, but some scientists believe the risk of impact will soon drop to zero
Elon Musk has unveiled his start-up’s new artificial intelligence product live on social media and right on schedule, after earlier claiming Grok 3 was superior to anything else on the market
Political and tech industry leaders have joined forces in Paris at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit to ‘take back control’ of the revolutionary innovation changing civilisation as we know it
The current generation of Aussie schoolkids have big dreams of what they’ll be when they grow up – but it’s not just AI fuelling the ambitions of these future teachers, doctors and mechanics
As the touring asteroid first spotted after Boxing Day safely zooms away from Earth on the next leg of its four-year orbit, the global agency that assesses asteroid risk will keep monitoring its travels
Executive orders signed by American President Donald Trump hours after his Jan 20 inauguration include changing place names to more US-centric options – with Google Maps already on board
Two budding newshounds have been named Junior Journalists of the Year after Kids News judges were wowed by thought-provoking submissions on AI and robotics plus domestic violence
A world-first reform establishing 16 as the minimum legal age to use social media platforms like TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook has passed both Houses of Parliament in Australia
Uncertainty over whether popular messaging app Snapchat would be included in Australia’s social media reforms has been cleared up with the Government introducing the legislation to parliament
Beachgoers got the surprise of their lives when an adventurous emperor penguin waddled from the water to explore a WA beach, possibly the first time one has swum from Antarctica to Australia
A massive offshore solar farm has been unveiled in China as Elon Musk celebrated an Australian solar milestone, saying the renewable source was key for the world’s future power supply
Travellers were left stranded after multiple airlines cancelled flights to and from Australia to holiday hotspot Bali due to the giant ash cloud caused by Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupting
As the reef gets ready for its yearly ‘date night’, scientists say it’s not just coral that will be busy during November’s spawning season. Here’s what to expect and why it’s critical for our oceans
Australia is poised to be the first country in the world to impose a minimum social media age of 16 as the PM asks states and territories to back the change to protect kids from online harms
Australian students are celebrating the successful lift off of their history-making space mission, as their algae experiment heads to the International Space Station in a bid to grow a greener future
Healthy Harold and his mates thought they were safe online while building a fun new game together – but things soon went wrong so they got help and came up with a simple code for other kids