Australian scientists have designed a first-of-a-kind optical filter that will allow astronomers to capture some of the most detailed images […]
Year 7-9 ‘space explorers’ from Melrose High School in the ACT became the first students in Australia to perform ‘real […]
The Chinese space program has reached another milestone in its ambitious plans to explore space, with the successful landing of the […]
Last week, amatuer astronomers reported the sighting of a ‘nova‘ near ‘The Pointers’ (not far from the Southern Cross). Nova […]
Astronomers using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have spotted what appear to be two supermassive black holes at the heart […]
Along with maybe a billion other people, we watched in fascination as the China National Space Administration (CNSA) successfully launched […]
In a ‘text book’ launch, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft roared off its pad at Cape Canaveral and disappeared into a cloud […]
The second of Tidbinbilla’s new antennas is about to start growing While work continues on Deep Space Station 35 (DSS35), the […]
India launches its first mission to Mars On November 5, 2013, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched its […]
Where does our Galaxy get the fuel to keep forming stars? The answer may lie in thousands of gas clouds […]
Astronomers using a CSIRO radio telescope have taken the Universe’s temperature, and have found that it has cooled down just […]
Spectacular jets powered by the gravitational energy of a supermassive black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy Hercules […]
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