Space
Your 2026 stargazing guide
A red Moon, a blue Moon, a supermoon and more: your guide to the southern sky in 2026.
Category: Space
Science & Environment
Avoiding asteroids: What do we do without a planetary defence mission?
NASA just shut down a planetary defence mission that tracks asteroids. So, what happens now?
Space
A puzzle in the infant universe
If astronomers ever needed something to gloat about with scientific colleagues in other fields, their ability to look directly backwards in time is an obvious candidate.
Space
What is a lunar eclipse?
Total, partial, and penumbral – the different types of lunar eclipses can be confusing. Find out what each means, and how the phenomenon occurs in the first place.
Science & Environment
‘The most hellish place in the universe’: This black hole eats a star a day
Thanks to a huge astronomical survey of the entire sky, we have now found what may be the most hellish place in the universe.
Space
Exploring the Solar System’s beauty spots
Spots are probably best known as the bane of a teenage face, but you might be surprised to know that a propensity for spots is also a characteristic of other worlds.
Science & Environment
Comet Encke returns!
Comet Encke has the shortest orbital period of any known comet within our solar system.
Science & Environment
What are auroras, and why do they come in different shapes and colours?
Over millennia, humans have observed and been inspired by beautiful displays of light bands dancing across dark night skies.
Science & Environment
Don’t miss this week’s glowing green comet
A bright green comet will be visible from Australia this week for the first time in 50,000 years.
News
‘This was a star that lived fast and died young’: James Webb Space Telescope images show a star’s murder scene
The first images of a nebula from the James Webb Telescope gave astronomers remarkable insights into the death of the star that created these beautiful haloes of gas and dust.