26 Jun 2015

ANU continues to strengthen its reputation as the nation's leading research institution with three academics awarded new Australian Research Council Australian...

24 Jun 2015

RSAA astronomer, Professor Brian Schmidt AC has been appointed the next Vice-Chancellor of The Australian National University (ANU). He will take up the...

23 Jun 2015

Astronomers have solved a mystery over small, unusually hot blue stars, 10 times hotter than our Sun, that are found in the middle of dense star clusters.

3 Jun 2015

Australian scientists and industry will play a key role in an international collaboration to build the world's most powerful optical telescope after the Giant...

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

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...

6 Mar 2015

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