Life showed up really early on Earth – it needed complex carbon molecules to do so. A new discovery hints that these molecules can survive the harsh conditions when stars are born.
All things die, even galaxies.
Astronomers have built a new observatory in the cold dry air of a high plateau in Antarctica to peer through our atmosphere and observe carbon in our galaxy.
One of the few examples of a fast radio burst and the slow-moving, star forming gas in its origin galaxy has been linked together – thanks to observations from a CSIRO telescope.
The bright explosion revealed its internal structure.
MTV may not be the power house it used to be but the music video is flourishing online.
Gravitational waves reveal the demise of super-dense neutron stars spiralling into their black hole companions - the first time such strange and exotic star systems have ever been observed.
It’s too heavy to be a neutron star and too light to be a black hole. So what is it?
The recipe book for galaxy formation may need to be rewritten after the discovery of a massive galaxy that stopped making new stars early in the Universe’s history.
A giant golden mirror is on the brink of opening up a glimpse of the very first galaxies to be formed.
