SKA-Low radio telescope takes big step forward in WA
11 March, 2024The first of more than 130,000 two-metre-tall antennas that will make up the SKA-Low radio telescope were installed last week in the Mid West region of Western Australia.
Webb telescope unearths an ancient galaxy that shouldn't exist
16 February, 2024The telescope found that a massive galaxy in the early universe — observed 11.5 billion years ago — has an extremely old population of stars formed much earlier.
Astronomers detect the oldest black hole ever found
19 January, 2024The black hole is surprisingly massive, with its existence so early in the universe challenging our assumptions about how black holes form and grow.
Distant fast radio burst offers path to weigh the universe
23 October, 2023Scientists have found the most ancient and distant blast of cosmic radio waves to date, located so far away that its light took eight billion years to reach Earth.
Bennu asteroid sample found to contain carbon and water
12 October, 2023Initial studies of a sample of the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu show evidence of high carbon content and water, which together indicate that the building blocks of life on Earth may be found in the rock.
NASA's first ever asteroid sample has landed on Earth
27 September, 2023NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft travelled across the solar system and back to visit an asteroid named Bennu and collect a sample — a sample that has now been brought back to Earth.
Giant 'bubble' of galaxies a remnant of the early universe
21 September, 2023Astronomers have discovered a giant 'bubble' of galaxies, measuring one billion light-years across, which they believe to be a fossil-like remnant of the birth of the universe.
New stellar object challenges our knowledge of neutron stars
20 July, 2023Astronomers have discovered what they believe to be an ultralong-period magnetar — a rare type of neutron star that can produce powerful bursts of energy.
Astronomers find a planet that shouldn't exist
18 July, 2023As the first known close-in planet around a core-helium burning star, Halla shows that exoplanet discoveries might still surprise us by appearing where they are least expected.
New phase of matter discovered
11 July, 2023Physicists have discovered the 'chiral bose-liquid' state of matter, opening a new path in the age-old effort to understand the nature of the physical world.
Universe ran in 'slow motion' soon after the Big Bang
04 July, 2023Einstein's theory of general relativity means that we should observe the distant (ancient) universe running much more slowly than the present day, but peering back that far in time has previously proven elusive.
Strongest evidence yet for low-frequency gravitational waves
29 June, 2023Astrophysicists using large radio telescopes have found the strongest evidence yet for gravitational waves that oscillate with periods of years to decades.
Milestone as phosphorus discovered on a moon of Saturn
16 June, 2023Scientists have discovered phosphorus — an essential chemical element for life — locked inside salt-rich ice grains ejected into space from Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons.
Milestone as radio waves observed from Type Ia supernova
06 June, 2023An international team of researchers performed detailed observations of a Type Ia supernova which exploded in 2020.
CSIRO telescope's new galaxy discovery causes questions
30 May, 2023Researchers using a telescope owned by CSIRO have detected a 'fast radio burst' in a nearby galaxy that questions what we know about how the phenomena form.