Telescopes from across the globe have teamed up to take unprecedented images of supermassive black hole M87* as it blasts matter...
If Planet Nine is out there, a large, mysterious planet lurking at the dark edges of the Solar System, it...
Two international teams of astronomers (with significant Dutch involvement) have published two scientific papers with new information about the famous...
An artist’s impression of the SKA at night Image: SKA Prime Minister Scott Morrison has made a AU$387 million pledge...
The more we study the Universe, the more it seems likely that each galaxy is orbiting a cosmic colossus –...
In the southern sky, situated about 4,300 light years from Earth, lies RCW 120, an enormous glowing cloud of gas...
In the search for life on other planets, the presence of oxygen in a planet’s atmosphere is one potential sign...
From the smallest microbe to the mightiest oak, death is as true for above as it is for below, even...
Astrophysicists have found a new region of the Milky Way, and it’s filled with searingly hot, bright-blue stars that are...
Radio pulsars could be spitting way more powerful bursts of radiation into space than we knew. According to a new...
With the help of machine-learning techniques, a team of astronomers has discovered a dozen quasars that have been warped by...
It is no exaggeration to say that the study of extrasolar planets has exploded in recent decades. To date, 4,375 exoplanets have...
