The founding Artistic Director of Arts House takes a look back at the early days of Melbourne’s home of contemporary and ...

When a massive star dies, astronomers expect a familiar chemical script: hydrogen and helium on the outside, heavier elements ...

Meteorites are like a time machine and spacecraft all in one. Discover how our scientists use rare specimens in the meteorite ...

The winter sky is dominated by the constellation of Orion, halfway up from the southern horizon. Its two brightest stars - Betelgeuse and Rigel compete for your attention. Add the three stars between ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, has observed a sudden outburst of matter near the supermassive black hole ...

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected ...

Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...

A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 triggered ultra-fast winds racing outward at a fifth the speed of light—an event never witnessed before. Using XMM-Newton and ...

The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 ...