Five myths about gravitational waves
Gravitational waves: are they worth the hype?
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The Hubble tension: How magnetic fields could help solve one of the universe’s biggest mysteries
Two ways of measuring how fast the universe is expanding disagree, a puzzle known as the Hubble tension. Tiny magnetic fields from the Big Bang may offer a solution.
You’ve heard of the Big Bang. Now astronomers have discovered the Big Wheel – here’s why it’s significant
This enormous disk object formed soon after the Big Bang, challenging what we know about how galaxies grow.
Former treasury head Ken Henry says we need ‘big bang’ tax reform rather than incremental change
Addressing a Tax Institute event on Thursday, Henry said the Australian tax system “is not capable of raising sufficient revenue to fund the activities of government. Certainly not today. Far less at any time in the future.”
Stephen Hawking and I created his final theory of the cosmos – here’s what it reveals about the origins of time and life
The enigma at the centre of our 20-year collaboration was how the Big Bang could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life
A very big bang as huge star dies
Residue of the death of a super-giant star hundreds of times bigger than our Sun has been detected by an international team…
Curious Kids: will time ever stop?
Time ends when the universe does.
Astronomers can’t agree on how fast the universe is expanding. New approaches are aiming to break the impasse
The Hubble tension has been described as a “crisis” for cosmology. Can it be resolved?
Stephen Hawking: Martin Rees looks back on colleague’s spectacular success against all odds
UK’s Astronomer Royal Martin Rees shares his memories of the physicist Stephen Hawking, who has died at the age of 76.
All the way with MWA: a big new telescope to unlock Big Bang secrets
Education minister Kim Carr today launched the Murchison Widefield Array, an important precursor telescope that will one day feed space data to the Square Kilometre Array telescope, allowing astronomers…
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