24 May 2015

Professor Martin Asplund's work in solar and stellar physics has changed the way in which we approach atomic and nuclear physics and a wide range of...

22 May 2015

Over the next few years the AITC will perform the launch certification for a number of Australian satellites.

21 May 2015

The universe's benchmark explosions are much more varied than expected.

20 May 2015

Scientists have captured the early death throes of supernovae for the first time and found that the universe's benchmark explosions are more varied than...

5 May 2015

Researchers at ANU have helped discover a strange exoplanet orbiting a small cool star 500 light years that away is challenging ideas about how planets form.

7 Apr 2015

More than 40,000 amateur astronomers have classified two million unidentified heavenly bodies found by the SkyMapper telescope at The Australian National...

6 Mar 2015

Astronomers have glimpsed a far off and ancient star exploding, not once, but four times.

6 Mar 2015

Like the lost little puppy that wanders too far from home, astronomers have found an unusually small and distant group of stars that seems oddly out of place...

5 Mar 2015

Astronomers have glimpsed a far off and ancient star exploding, not once, but four times.

2 Mar 2015

An international team of astronomers has found a huge and ancient black hole which was powering the brightest object early in the universe.

12 Feb 2015

Nobel laureate and ANU astrophysicist Professor Brian Schmidt AC has made the first donation to a new United States-based ANU charitable foundation. The ANU...

3 Feb 2015

People from all over the world have enrolled in the Cosmology massive open online course (MOOC), the latest edX offering from ANU.