Researchers have discovered a new stellar object, potentially an ultra-long period magnetar, that challenges existing understanding of neutron stars. Emitting radio waves every 22 minutes,…
Researchers at ICRAR have uncovered tantalizing evidence of magnetic fields in the universe’s largest cosmic structures. The cosmic web, a network of interconnecting filaments and…
Astronomers believe two of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way—the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds—may have had a third companion. Research published today describes…
A telescope in outback Western Australia has been used to listen to a mysterious cigar-shaped object that entered our Solar System late last year. The…
Astronomers have discovered that all galaxies rotate once every billion years, no matter how big they are. The Earth spinning around on its axis once…
Astronomers have discovered that our nearest big neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, is roughly the same size as the Milky Way. It had been thought that…
Astronomers have used two Australian radio telescopes and several optical telescopes to study complex mechanisms that are fuelling jets of material blasting away from a…