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Listening out for alien worlds

Are we alone in the Universe? This question drives many of us to look to the stars. But rather than wait for aliens to drop by, researchers are looking for hints of life on other worlds.

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Tuning in to the Universe

New technology installed on our Parkes radio telescope today will let astronomers ‘hear’ a wider range of radio waves from objects in space, opening the way to new science.

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Fancy yourself an expert stargazer? We’ve got the quiz for you!

ABC’s Stargazing Live returns to our screens over three nights in May, and Wed 23 May is your chance to join an ABC Stary Party and be an astronomer for a night

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Big data (not big rockets) set to propel Australia’s space science

Whatever the future holds for Australia’s space industry, exciting times are ahead, and big data will play a big part.

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Expect the unexpected from the big-data boom in radio astronomy

Technology is driving a revolution in the way radio astronomers study the universe, and it could lead to new discoveries.

Shooting stars: Amazing astronomy photographs

Check out the out-of-this-world winners of the 2017 CWAS David Malin astrophotography awards!

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The Dish joins global search for new signs of life

Breakthrough Listen — the largest search for extraterrestrial life — has launched today at our Parkes radio telescope, turning its mighty eye on the 'exo-Earth' Proxima b.

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Dish at Parkes serves up the answer to one of life’s greatest mysteries

Using sensitive radio telescopes, including our very own ‘Dish’ at Parkes, a team of international scientists have for the first time discovered a chiral molecule outside of our solar system.

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The Last Man on the Moon… goes to Canberra

Gene Cernan was the last man to set foot on the moon, and has travelled nearly everywhere else on Earth - so what made Canberra his next destination?

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Ex-eter marks the spot for Tassie pulsar hunters

Astronomer Shari Breen returns to her high school via the PULSE@Parkes program to look out for pulsars.

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IceCube and the tale of the Big Bird neutrino

We've used our Parkes telescope to help trace the origin of the Big Bird neutrino to a galaxy 9.1 billion light years away.

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Bound for Bonn: Aussie astro technology heading to Germany

Our award-winning phased array feed (PAF) technology will soon head to the northern hemisphere to be installed on the world’s second largest single-dish radio telescope. At 100 metres in diameter, the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy’s (MPIfR) Effelsberg radio dish, located just outside of Bonn, Germany, is the largest dish in Europe and second largest...

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