In 2017, NASA announced the discovery of seven rocky, Earth-sized planets orbiting in the habitable zone of a star ca...
In Neal Stephenson’s 2015 novel Seveneves, he imagines that the Earth’s moon breaking into seven pieces. This being a...
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...
Dark energy is without a doubt the weirdest thing in the universe. Despite being present in every corner of the cosmo...
A new study in Science has revealed that the feeding patterns of a black hole can tell us about its size. Supermas...
Computational modelling suggests that neutron stars are even weirder than we thought. According to researchers from t...
Australian-led researchers believe they have found evidence for a new type of stellar explosion – a magneto-rotationa...
In a first-of-its-kind discovery, US researchers have spotted a cosmic cloud bigger than our own Milky Way, floating ...
Venus’ surface is not a single, solid “lithosphere”, as once thought, but a patchwork of tectonic plates with similar...
The Dark Energy Survey collaboration has just released 30 new papers from the first three years of their observing ru...
