1 Nov 2012

RSAA Professor Ken Freeman has been awarded the 2012 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science for almost 50 years work shaping and changing the human view of...

8 Aug 2012

The Nobel Prize medal won by Brian Schmidt has gone on display at the national science centre in Canberra. "You know a Nobel Prize is really something symbolic...

31 Jul 2012

The mysteries of the evolution of the universe since the Big Bang are one step closer to being solved, thanks to research from The Australian National...

21 Jun 2012

“The question of extraterrestrial life is one that fascinates both scientists and the public, but often what we’re asking is not so much ‘Is there any life out...

21 Jun 2012

Professor O’Neill’s alternative theory is that this isotope difference is explained by collisional erosion

8 Jun 2012

This is a slice through the mid-plane of a three-dimensional simulation of a powerful jet pushing its way through an inhomogeneous dense sphere of clouds...

8 Jun 2012

This is a movie rendered in three dimensions of a supercomputer simulation of a powerful relativistic jet interacting with dense clouds surrounding an active...

8 Jun 2012

This is a movie rendered in three dimensions of a supercomputer simulation of a powerful relativistic jet interacting with dense clouds surrounding an active...

1 Jun 2012

Professor Paul Davies gives this public lecture entitled: The eerie silence: Are we alone in the Universe? on Friday, 18 May 2012 at The Australian National...

17 May 2012

One of Australia’s foremost astronomers, Professor Matthew Colless, has today been announced as the new Director of the Research School of Astronomy and...

30 Apr 2012

Determining the habitability of rocky, Earth-like planets in the universe will be crucial for us as a species, according to scientists from The Australian...

20 Apr 2012

In this video, Charles Bolden discusses the important role that NASA plays in shaping the future of space exploration, and the agency's long-term...