New PULSE@Parkes observing slots now open for schools

March 7, 2018

Observing sessions for our PULSE@Parkes free education program are now open to applications from high schools. We have sessions available from April to September 2018. More information.

Signs of earliest stars seen from Australia

March 3, 2018

Using a small radio telescope at our Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia, US astronomers have detected a signal from the first stars to have emerged in the early […]

Telecommunications networks: helping scientists peer into deep space

February 4, 2018

Researchers using the ATNF’s Compact Array and Mopra radio telescopes have demonstrated that a stable frequency reference can be reliably transmitted more than 300 kilometres over a standard fibre optic […]

Astronomers peer into the lair of a mysterious cosmic radio burster

January 11, 2018

Two CSIRO scientists working in an international team have helped show that a mysterious source of cosmic radio bursts lies in an extreme environment, perhaps in close proximity to a […]