First publication from MeerKAT a significant milestone
April 6, 2018
South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope has been used to observe a magnetar that awoke in 2017 from a 3-year slumber, and the results have been published in the first science […]
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 […]
Neutron-star merger creates new mysteries
December 21, 2017
The neutron-star merger announced in October 2017 has solved one mystery – where gold comes from – but has also raised other questions, an international team reports today in the […]
Gravitational waves world-first discovery Down Under
October 18, 2017
Our Australia Telescope Compact Array near Narrabri, NSW has been used by researchers from The University of Sydney and the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics to detect radio-wave […]
Aussie astro tech to go on show in Adelaide
September 19, 2017
Australian technology now boosting the performance of Germany’s flagship radio telescope will go on show at the Adelaide Convention Centre as part of the International Astronautical Congress 2017 from September […]
‘Pompom’ stars may solve quasar puzzle
June 27, 2017
Gas filaments surrounding stars like the strands of a pompom may be the answer to a 30-year old mystery: why quasars twinkle. This solution is published today in The Astrophysical […]
Eleven year cosmic search leads to black hole rethink
December 22, 2015
One hundred years since Einstein proposed gravitational waves as part of his general theory of relativity, an 11-year search performed with the Parkes telescope has shown that an expected background […]
CSIRO and Internet investor Yuri Milner strike deal for ET search
July 20, 2015
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation has signed a multi-million dollar agreement with CSIRO to use the organisation’s 64-m Parkes radio telescope in eastern Australia to search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The search […]
Media Release: Australia captures world first close-ups of Pluto
July 14, 2015
After nine-and-a-half years and just over five billion kilometres, the much anticipated and incredibly long awaited close-up view of Pluto is only hours away. CSIRO’s Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex […]
Media Release: We’ve revealed a galaxy far, far away…
July 10, 2015
Astronomers have revealed a galaxy five billion light-years away, using CSIRO’s newest radio telescope, the Australian SKA Pathfinder, in remote Western Australia. CSIRO’s Dr James Allison led a research team […]
Media release: Cosmic radio burst caught red-handed
January 20, 2015
A short, sharp flash of radio waves from a mysterious source up to 5.5 billion light years from Earth has been detected by CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope in eastern Australia. […]
A telescope is born
June 11, 2014
It may look like just dots on a page, but an image of distant galaxies taken last week represents a huge step forward for CSIRO’s Australia SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio […]