New images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have enabled Australian astronomers to uncover secrets of how infant galaxies started an explosion of star…
Precise mapping of temperature changes provides insights into its evolution. A multinational team of astronomers has developed a temperature map for the cosmic dust swirling…
The dozens of newly identified gravitational lenses could also reveal ancient galaxies. Earlier this year, a machine learning algorithm detected up to 5,000 possible gravitational…
Stars are giant factories that produce most of the elements in the Universe – including the elements in us, and in the Earth’s metal deposits….
Research Reveals How Star-Making Pollutes the Cosmos Galaxies pollute the environment they exist in, researchers have found. A team of astronomers led by Alex Cameron…
‘Magneto-rotational hypernova’ soon after the Big Bang fuelled high levels of uranium, zinc in ancient stellar oddity. A massive explosion from a previously unknown source…
The first detailed cross-section of a galaxy broadly similar to the Milky Way, published today, reveals that our galaxy evolved gradually, instead of being the…
Completion of the Australian-led astronomy project sheds light on the evolution of the Universe. The complex mechanics determining how galaxies spin, grow, cluster and die…
Australian telescopes and European satellite combine to reveal unexpected motions among the Galaxy’s rarest objects. Theories on how the Milky Way formed are set to…
Colliding neutron stars were touted as the main source of some of the heaviest elements in the Periodic Table. Now, not so much … Neutron…
Unusual galaxy set to prompt rethink on how structures in the universe form. Astronomers have captured an image of a super-rare type of galaxy —…
Star-quake vibrations lead to new estimate for Milky Way age. Data gathered by NASA’s now defunct Kepler telescope provides a solution to an astronomical mystery….
Sky survey provides clues to how galaxies change over time. The direction in which a galaxy spins depends on its mass, researchers have found. A…
Researchers find evidence of a cataclysmic flare that punched so far out of the galaxy its impact was felt 200,000 light years away. A titanic,…
Researchers hunt for a 12-billion-year-old signal that marks the end of the post-Big Bang “dark age.” Astronomers are closing in on a signal that has…