Study reveals new details of our galaxy
Australian and German scientists have created a detailed new map of our Milky Way using the world’s largest radio telescopes.
Australian and German scientists have created a detailed new map of our Milky Way using the world’s largest radio telescopes.
Mercury joins Earth as the only known tectonically active planet in our Solar System.
Reports of a bright flash and a loud boom in Central Queensland last night have prompted speculation of a meteor strike.
Hubble Space Telescope captures the colourful death of a star like our Sun, 4000 light years away.
The European Space Agency has charted more than a billion Milky Way stars – on its way to building the most detailed 3D map of our galaxy ever made.
NASA scientists have for the first time imaged the edge of the Sun, enabling them to describe the mysterious origins of Solar wind.
Astronomers have found an Earth-like planet orbiting our nearest neighbour, the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri. So any chance that planet may be habitable?
The red hue of the Moon during a total lunar eclipse gives astronomers a clue on how to find out more about the planets being discovered around other stars.
New research suggests that a storm on Jupiter may be helping heat the planet to degrees upwards of 500ºC.
There’s a one in 2500 chance that it will hit – but we won’t be around to see it.