A study of the internal sound waves created by starquakes, which make stars ring like a bell, has provided unprecedented insights into conditions in the turbulent gas clouds where stars were born 8 billion years ago.
An international team of astronomers has used a new UNSW Australia telescope to help discover a large rocky object disintegrating in a death spiral around a distant white dwarf star.
The Mopra telescope at Siding Spring Observatory is a frontline facility charting a new atlas of our galaxy. But who is going to pay for it, asks Michael Burton.
After nine and a half years in flight, the New Horizons spacecraft will sweep past the dwarf planet Pluto on Tuesday night, bringing its journey to a thrilling climax, write Jonathan P. Marshall and Jonti Horner.
UNSW astrophysicists will search for habitable planets outside our solar system using the world’s most powerful optical telescope, which is to be constructed in Chile.
On the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers from around the globe, including UNSW's Chris Tinney, describe the Hubble image with the most scientific relevance for them.
In Australian Indigenous astronomical traditions the celestial lights of Aurora Australis are associated with fire, death, blood, and omens, writes Duane Hamacher.
