Astronomers report two new space oddities
Death by spaghettification and a stellar peacock.
Astronomers have described not one but two rather rare sights in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societ...
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How can satellites and telescopes co-exist?
Astronomers discuss life with a growth industry.
Astronomers worried about having their observations affected by the bright trails of satellites streaking through the...
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Antarctica is the perfect place for stargazing
Dome A is officially the best place for astronomy.
Have you ever wondered why stars twinkle? It’s because turbulence in the Earth’s atmosphere makes light emitted from ...
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Super-Earths discovered orbiting a red dwarf star
And in the habitable zone where water could exist.
Astronomers have discovered two super-Earth exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star 11 light years away from Earth, with...
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Astronomers find source of four radio bursts
Understanding the origins of mysterious signals.
Fast radio bursts are one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy. The immensely powerful bursts of radiation appear ra...
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A ‘cosmic ring of fire’ from 11 billion years ago
Collision between galaxies created rare ring galaxy.
Nearly 11 billion light years away lurks a super-rare type of galaxy that bears the scars of a galactic battle. Rathe...
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Fireball over SA could have been a “Minimoon”
Minimoon spotted as it exploded in the atmosphere in 2016.
Rocks explode in Earth’s atmosphere fairly regularly, and at first glance a bolide spotted over South Australia in 20...
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Star flung across the galaxy
Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is the culprit.
A star travelling through the Milky Way at more than six million km/h has been discovered by a team of international ...
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Demolition derby: Planet crashes explain different densities
Research sheds light on the violence of exoplanet formation. Lauren Fuge reports.
Colossal cosmic crashes may influence how exoplanets form, according to research by an international team of astronom...
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A comet soars through the stars
The comet C/2017 S3 in motion.
This time-lapse animation, compiled from still images by the Austrian amateur astronomer Michael Jaeger, shows the co...
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Caught on camera: the birth of a supernova
Amateur astronomer looks at a distant star, just as it explodes. Lauren Fuge reports.
Argentinian amateur astronomer Víctor Buso expected a quiet night out testing a new camera on his telescope, but inst...
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Earth's spin is slowing, but not as expected
Ancient texts help piece together the planet’s rotational history.
Greek astronomer Ptolemy kept detailed records of celestial events. They were used by researchers in the UK to determ...