QUT joins the search for ancient life on Mars
23 October, 2020 by Lauren DavisQUT will develop software to crunch the complex geochemical data that will be captured by the Perseverance rover during its mission to search for ancient life on Mars.
Black hole spotted devouring a star
15 October, 2020A rare blast of light, emitted by a star as it was sucked in by a supermassive black hole, has been spotted by scientists using telescopes from around the world.
Australia set to co-host the world's largest telescope
02 October, 2020Western Australia will host the Square Kilometre Array's 130,000 antennas, generating hundreds of millions of dollars in economic activity for Australia.
Mysterious object found in black hole collision
30 June, 2020The LIGO and Virgo observatories have detected gravitational waves caused by the collision of a black hole, accompanied by a mysterious astrophysical object.
Pulsar observed 'powering up'
03 June, 2020Astronomers have observed the full process of material spiralling into a distant neutron star, triggering an X-ray outburst thousands of times brighter than our Sun.
Galaxies grow by 'eating' their smaller neighbours
29 April, 2020Exactly how massive galaxies attain their size is poorly understood, but now a combination of observation and modelling has provided a vital clue.
Newly discovered star pulsates on just one side
13 March, 2020A star that pulsates on just one side has been discovered in the Milky Way — and while such stars have been predicted in theory, this is the first of its kind to be recorded.
New estimate for the age of the Milky Way
13 December, 2019Starquakes recorded by NASA's now-defunct Kepler space telescope have helped answer a longstanding question about the age of the 'thick disc' of the Milky Way.
Black holes can be much bigger than previously thought
04 December, 2019Researchers were excited by the discovery of a stellar black hole with a mass 70 times that of the Sun, located 15,000 light years from Earth.
Under pressure: a new dimension for the periodic table
06 September, 2019It is now possible for materials researchers to make quick predictions about how certain elements will behave at different pressures.
'Anaemic' star carries link to ancient ancestor
09 August, 2019A newly discovered ancient star, containing what is said to be a record-low amount of iron, carries evidence of a class of even older stars.
Radio burst pinpointed 3.6bn light-years away
02 July, 2019Astronomers have determined the precise location of a powerful one-off burst of cosmic radio waves, thanks to the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder radio telescope.
Black hole observed spraying plasma into space
02 May, 2019Astronomers have discovered rapidly swinging jets coming from a black hole almost 8000 light-years from Earth — behaviour that has never before been observed on such short timescales.
Budget 2019–20 — lacking 'clever country' ambition
03 April, 2019How will the Morrison Government's pre-election 2019 Federal Budget impact science and research?
Physicists reverse time with a quantum computer
18 March, 2019Russian physicists have found a way to wind back the clock, returning the state of a quantum computer a fraction of a second into the past.
