New antenna to support space exploration

A new antenna and new space missions — there’s excitement brewing at the New Norcia ground station.

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Pawsey takes a quantum computing leap

Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre is working with an innovative start-up to test the first room-temperature quantum computer in a national supercomputing facility.

Artists impression of the pulsar

We’ve used a new technique to discover the brightest radio pulsar outside our own galaxy

The pulsar PSR J0523-7125 is more than ten times brighter than any other radio pulsar outside the Milky Way.

‘Odd radio circles’ that baffled astronomers are likely explosions from distant galaxies

Next-generation radio telescopes unravel the mysteries of ghostly circles in the sky.

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Vacation students reach for the stars

Would you spend your summer working on real-world astronomy and astrophysics problems? We spoke with four students who did just that.

Top 10 images from the ASKAP radio telescope

Data can be beautiful. Here are our top 10 images from the ASKAP radio telescope data.

A photo taken at night shows a field of stars stretching across the sky above a few radio telescope dishes lit with green lights.

To the Milky Way and beyond

A new virtual reality film is the next best thing to visiting Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, our Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory. Join Chris Brayton behind-the-scenes in filming Beyond the Milky Way.

An artist’s impression of the Double Pulsar system

We counted 20 billion ticks of an extreme galactic clock to give Einstein’s theory of gravity its toughest test yet

Astronomers watched pulsars for 16 years to test Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which has stood unchallenged for over a century.

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.