Around 200,000 years ago there was an epic crash on the cosmic highway. In the solar system orbiting the lyrically na...
Astronomers have just watched the evolution of streamers of gas around an active black hole – and they look a bit lik...
Like rocks on Earth preserving records of prehistoric times, some pristine meteorites hold records of ancient grains ...
In the West Australian desert, an array of radio telescopes has spotted strange radio signals emanating from somewher...
In 2022, the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder Telescope in WA will embark on a massive project to map the...
US scientists have discovered that overflowing lakes on Mars caused floods that carved out a quarter of the planet’s ...
Black holes aren’t as single-minded as we thought. It turns out their quantum behaviour adds a new, recalcitrant dime...
An international team of researchers has generated an entire virtual universe and uploaded it to the “cloud”. They th...
Rare space object captured by Hubble The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a picture of a rare phenomenon: bright...
I have a very clear memory of the moment I knew I wanted to become a scientist – it was when Neil Armstrong stood on ...
Credit: James Josephides, Swinburne Astronomical Productions. The outflow of galaxies is much dirtier than the gas...
For centuries, humans have gazed up and wondered if we are alone in the universe. In 1960, physicist Freeman Dyson ch...
