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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.
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.
2 Feb 2015
One of the most iconic ruins of the 2003 Canberra bushfires, the Mount Stromlo Observatory Director’s Residence, has re-opened to the public following a major...
14 Jan 2015
Six undergraduate students from across Australia have come to ANU to see what it is like to work in the growing space technology industry. The students are...
12 Nov 2014
RSAA astrophysicist and Nobel laureate Professor Brian Schmidt and his team of astronomers have won one of the most valuable prizes in science. The team has...