The battle for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope is heating up. The SKA board was scheduled to choose a site – South Africa or Australia and New Zealand – earlier this year but a decision…
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Images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft have revealed unusual geological features on the surface of the asteroid Vesta, one of…
The innermost of Jupiter’s moons has been mapped, showing a highly volatile volcanic surface. Discovered by Galileo over…
A team of Australian and European astronomers has discovered a highly unusual galaxy in the shape of an emerald-cut diamond roughly 70 million light years away. The astronomers - from Australia, Germany…
In a result which has baffled astronomers at NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, dark matter has been observed separating from…
When the Obama administration announced its proposed NASA budget in February, astronomers worldwide breathed a sigh of relief. Despite significant cuts in other areas, funding for the James Webb Space…
The biggest space storm in five years is hurtling towards Earth at more than 2000 km per second. Two bursts of solar wind and plasma - known as coronal mass ejections (CME) - are expected to hit Earth…
Astronomers at Swinburne University of Technology have discovered a densely-concentrated galaxy cluster 10.5 billion light-years…
The collision of several, massive galaxy clusters has left behind a clump of dark matter, potentially challenging existing…
Our galaxy may be teeming with so-called ‘nomad planets’, which travel through space rather than orbiting stars, according…
Ever since they were discovered accidentally in the 1960s, gamma ray bursts (GRBs) have continued to amaze and puzzle astronomers worldwide. In nearly 50 years of research there seem to have been more…
The Intermediate Mass Black Hole HLX-1 is surrounded by a very young massive cluster of stars, researchers from the University…
Double-star systems called X-ray binaries may give insight into the physics of black holes. X-ray binaries are double-star…
Astronomers have discovered an alien planet which could be the best candidate yet for harbouring water and possibly life…
The Nobel Lecture of physics laureate Brian Schmidt of the Australian National University has been placed online. A video of Professor Schmidt’s lecture, “The Path to Measuring an Accelerating Universe…
Mercury might once have orbited the sun in a “synchronous” rotation, before being hit by a large asteroid that flicked the…
The notebooks of Sir Isaac Newton, who was famously reported to have suffered a (scientifically) earth-shaking blow to the head from an apple, are being scanned and published online by the University of…
The star with the fastest rotation ever recorded has been discovered by researchers at the University of California, Santa…
Space exploration is one of the few science-rich human endeavours that captivates both expert and layperson alike. There is a mystery – a romanticism – associated with space research and technology that…
Black holes have long been the staple of science fiction, being monstrous beasts with a gravitational pull that prevents even light from escaping. As well as being useful plot devices, offering mechanisms…
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