31 May 2013

Professor Lawrence Krauss, who has been a regular visitor to ANU over the past several years, has officially joined the Research School of Astronomy and...

30 Apr 2013

On Tuesday 9 April 2013, Senator Kate Lundy, Minister Assisting for Industry and Innovation, launched Australia’s Satellite Utilisation Policy in the...

10 Jan 2013

A new image released today reveals how Gemini Observatory's most advanced adaptive optics (AO) system will help astronomers study the universe with an...

9 Nov 2012

Scientists at the University of Arizona and in California have completed the most challenging large astronomical mirror ever made. For the past several years...

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...

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...

29 Mar 2012

Astronomers have begun to blast 3 million cubic feet of rock from a mountaintop in the Chilean Andes to make room for what will be the world’s largest optical...

22 Jan 2012

The ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (RSAA) Winter School was held from the 27 July to the 3 August 2011.

17 Nov 2011

The second program in the ABC/ANU co-production Future Forum, focusing on the big issues ahead for the world and the nation, will screen this Wednesday at 8pm...