by Nikolas Iwanus We don’t know what the universe is made of... The atoms and molecules that make up the visible portions of what we do...

by Dr. Sarah Reeves The Milky Way galaxy is about 100,000 light years across and contains an estimated 100-400 billion stars. It’s also...

by Dr. Rebecca McElroy It is generally believed that at the centre of most galaxies like our own there is a supermassive black hole. This...

by Isabel Colman When you think of pictures in astronomy, you might think of colourful images of space, high-resolution and glimmering...

by Sam Grunblatt Many people get more eccentric as they enter old age. Why should planets be any different? For the past 4 years, the K2...

by Dougal Dobie In the last two blog posts we’ve learnt what has been accomplished so far in the very short history of gravitational wave...

by Dougal Dobie The gravitational wave signal detected by LIGO can give us lots of information about the merger, including estimates of...

Editor's Note: This 3-part blog post is being published early to mark one year from the ground-breaking discovery of this event! The...

by Kirsten Banks Aboriginal Astronomy and Western Astronomy are often thought of as two very different topics of conversation, but both...