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Since 2003 Trekzone has been home to many iterations, including purely a Star Trek reference site, then our Star Trek fan film series in the 2010’s. But now, in the 2020’s the newly named Journal will present the latest science and space news.

Tuesday, April 28 2026 •Matt

Australian scientists build the world’s first working quantum battery prototype

A team from CSIRO, RMIT University, and the University of Melbourne has demonstrated the world's first proof-of-concept quantum battery — a device that charges, stores, and releases energy using the strange rules of quantum mechanics. Unlike conventional batteries, this one becomes faster to charge as it grows larger, a counterintuitive property that could one day power electric vehicles or quantum computers.
Monday, April 27 2026 •Matt

Scientists find all five DNA building blocks in samples from space rocks

Researchers have confirmed all five canonical nucleobases — the information-carrying units of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Ryugu by Japan's Hayabusa-2 mission. The discovery adds compelling weight to the idea that the molecular ingredients of life may have been widespread across the early solar system, and delivered to Earth billions of years ago aboard carbonaceous asteroids.
Thursday, February 19 2026 •Matt

This student made cosmic dust in her lab

A Sydney PhD student has recreated a tiny piece of the Universe inside a bottle in her lab, producing cosmic dust from scratch. The results shed new light on how the chemical building blocks of life may have formed long before Earth existed.
Tuesday, February 17 2026 •Matt

DART AE Set For Launch

Hypersonix Launch Systems - from just around the corner from Trekzone HQ - has announced the launch window for a landmark flight test that will move sustained hypersonic flight closer to operational reality.
Thursday, February 12 2026 •Matt

Dark side of the universe revealed in new map

An ultra-high-resolution map of mass in the Universe, revealing how dark matter has shaped the growth of galaxies over the past 10 billion years, is published in Nature Astronomy.
Friday, February 6 2026 •Matt

SKAO’s Telescope in South Africa ‘comes alive’ with ‘first fringes’ milestone

SKA-Mid, like its counterpart SKA-Low in Australia, is an array where many individual antennas are connected by optical fibre to act like one much larger telescope, equivalent in size to the distance between its furthest antennas. "Fringes" are obtained when signals received by two or more antennas are combined successfully.
Monday, February 2 2026 •Matt

Remembering The Final Flights of Challenger and Columbia

40 years ago on January 28 the destruction of space shuttle Challenger would rock the American space agency to it's core. Seventeen years later, shuttle Columbia was destroyed on reentry. Fourteen astronauts slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God.
Friday, January 30 2026 •Matt

Moss could survive in the deadly vacuum of space for 15 years

Moss could survive in space for up to 15 years, according to international researchers, who sent moss spore samples to the International Space Station, where they survived in the vacuum of space for nine months before returning to Earth.
Tuesday, January 27 2026 •Matt

Love space photos? Satellites in orbit might start ruining the pictures

Approximately 96% of the images from some space observatories in low Earth orbit could be tainted over the next decade due to light contamination from satellites, according to an analysis published in Nature. The findings suggest that light pollution from satellites orbiting Earth needs to be minimized for successful astronomical research.
Friday, January 23 2026 •Matt

Apep’s sting: unlocking the mysteries of dying stars’ deadly embrace

Using the James Webb Space Telescope and data from Chile's Very Large Telescope, an international astronomy team has uncovered extraordinary images of a rare stellar system called Apep, showing four distinct dust shells spiralling outward from three massive stars locked in a cosmic dance.
Thursday, January 22 2026 •Matt

It’s possible to beam up quantum signals to a satellite

Quantum satellites currently beam entangled particles of light from space down to different ground stations for ultra-secure communications. New research shows it is also possible to send these signals upward, something once thought unfeasible.
Wednesday, January 21 2026 •Matt

An Antarctic glacier retreated 8km in just two months in 2022

The Hektoria Glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated by at least 8 kilometres in 2 months, a rate nearly 10 times faster than previously measured for a grounded glacier, according to a study published in Nature Geoscience and reported by the Australian Science Media Exchange.
Tuesday, January 20 2026 •Matt

Could the future of our satellites be tiny and solar powered?

Tiny, solar-powered floating devices that could support instruments in the high atmosphere are described in research published in Nature. The devices could be used for climate monitoring and Mars exploration, without the need for conventional fuel to maintain their altitude.
Tuesday, January 13 2026 •Matt

NASA To Return ISS Crew Early Due To Medical Issue

NASA is bringing Crew 11 home from the International Space Station after an undisclosed medical issue. ISS Commander Mike Fincke said the entire crew are "stable, safe and well cared" for with the decision to return home a month early "the right call, even if it's a bit bittersweet"