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Find out about the latest astronomy & astrophysics news, announcements and stories at ANU.
20 May 2018
How might space travel and extraterrestrial life affect our human moral status?
17 May 2018
Astronomers at ANU have found the fastest-growing black hole known in the Universe, describing it as a monster that devours a mass equivalent to our Sun every...
15 May 2018
Astronomers at ANU have found the fastest-growing black hole known in the Universe.
11 May 2018
A study led by The Australian National University (ANU) and the University of Crete in Greece has shed new light on the mystery of how our solar system formed.
3 May 2018
The Australian National University (ANU) is poised to play a key role to support a new national space agency and to help drive education, research and industry
27 Mar 2018
Dr Brad Tucker from ANU has seen the death throes of a star cocooned inside a dense shell of gas and dust, which ended in a violent explosion.
27 Feb 2018
Stars around our galaxy previously thought to be from merged dwarf galaxies are likely to have once been part of the Milky Way before being pulled away by an...
12 Feb 2018
The Australian National University (ANU) has appointed astronomer Dr Chris Lidman as the first Director of the ANU Siding Spring Observatory.
12 Feb 2018
Meet Karlie Noon, who is studying her Masters of Astronomy and Astrophysics at ANU.
2 Feb 2018
A new international study involving ANU has found a plane of dwarf galaxies orbiting around Centaurus A in a discovery that challenges a popular theory about...
1 Feb 2018
ANU will play a major role in the Taipan galaxy survey, which will for the first time measure the current expansion rate of the Universe with one per cent...
28 Nov 2017
Astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU) have created the most detailed radio image of nearby dwarf galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud,...