By Peter Reeve and Duane Hamacher. What comes to mind when you think of an “astronomer”? Perhaps a scientist peeri...
Each January, the American Astronomical Society (AAS) conducts a meeting widely hailed as the “Superbowl of astronomy...
Astronomers may have just witnessed a new way for galaxies to “die”, using the super-sensitive Atacama Large Millimet...
Stony meteorites known as carbonaceous chondrites show signs of liquid water no more than a million years ago, scient...
When it comes to prestige in US education, few names carry more weight than Harvard University. Founded in 1636 in...
By Jonti Horner for the University of Southern Queensland and Tanya Hill from Museums Victoria The best meteor sh...
Researchers in the emerging field of aerobiology are using microorganisms swept up in the Earth’s atmosphere to probe...
Wild space weather may mean most of the exoplanets in the Milky Way are uninhabitable, according to new research. ...
Scientists working with brand-new data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope have mapped the precise ...
A new radio telescope in outback Western Australia has just created an atlas of the southern sky in record-breaking t...
The degassing of early Earth’s magma ocean may have produced an atmosphere similar to that found on Venus today – ric...
When trying to find things in space, it helps to have technology on your side. And the technology keeps getting bette...
