Meet Elanor Huntington: engineering our future

Professor Elanor Huntington joined us in November as our new Executive Director Digital, National Facilities and Collections. Let's get to know her.

Keith Bannister. Man sits at his desk and looks at camera.

Meet Dr Keith Bannister: astronomer, engineer and prize winner

Meet our astronomer and engineer who has helped to create a whole new branch of astronomy research and been awarded multiple prizes for his achievements.

A black and white photo of Parkes radio telescope which opened 60 years ago.

60 years after it first gazed at the skies, the Parkes dish is still making breakthroughs

The CSIRO’s 64-metre Parkes Radio Telescope was commissioned on October 31 1961. At the time it was the most advanced […]

Colourful indigenous painting by Margaret Whitehurst

Capturing the Universe in paint and pixels

Parts of the invisible Universe have been captured by Wajarri artist Margaret Whitehurst and by our researchers using the ASKAP radio telescope.

A satellite dish with stars in space in the background.

Celebrating our (stellar) space women

We’re introducing you to a star cluster of our women who work in space.

Cows spread out throughout a wooded scrub area.

Meet Dr Hoskins: marine biologist come vertebrate ecologist

Meet Dr Andrew Hoskins and see how his research is helping Indigenous communities manage feral cattle on country. 

Test tubes and bottles show green microalgae helping create space food in a rack with liquids.

What’s for dinner on Mars? The science behind space food

Our researchers are working to develop new foods and food production systems for extended space travel.

An illustration of a star shooting out hot gases into space.

Next phase for ASKAP stargazing begins

Like any new technology, we’re still learning what the ASKAP telescope does best – and how we can wield it to uncover the secrets of the Universe.

‘Dancing ghosts’: a new, deeper scan of the sky throws up surprises for astronomers

We saw two ghosts dancing deep in the cosmos. We had never seen anything like it before, and we had no idea what they were.

A astrophotograph of stars in the nights sky with an ocean in the foreground at night time.

David Malin Awards: Astrophotography is looking up!

Winners of the David Malin Awards, Australia’s most prestigious astrophotography awards, have been announced for 2021.

A new image shows jets of plasma shooting out of a supermassive black hole

The Event Horizon Telescope team has created a new image showing jets of plasma being ejected from the core of a supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy Centaurus A.

Meet Earth observation leader: Dr Amy Parker

Meet Dr Amy Parker and see how she's helping make satellite data more accessible to Australian researchers.