Professor Matthew Bailes, from OzGrav and Swinburne University, has been awarded the 2024 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science for his role in the discovery of fast radio bursts and leadership in the field of radio astronomy.

The SKA-Low has begun to work as an interferometer, with first fringes showing successful correlation between two stations.

Australia is currently in the midst of developing a plan for the next decade of astronomy, reviewing infrastructure, instrumentation, education and more across the spectrum.

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Nearly 30 years of data from CSIRO’s Parkes telescope and NASA’s NICER have revealed a nearby neutron star’s mass, helping scientists predict gravitational waves from neutron star collision – the key to understanding how these extreme objects collapse into black holes.

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Dr Andrew Zic has received the Astronomical Society of Australia’s Louise Webster Prize for 2024.

Proposals for observing time are now invited for the 2024OCT semester.

Captured by cutting-edge radio telescope technology, a chance reactivation of a magnetar has revealed an unexpectedly complex environment.

For the first time, the super-fast speeds of a neutron star’s powerful jets have been recorded by CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array on Gomeroi Country and the European Space Agency’s […]

​16 Feb 2024: The majority of archival ASKAP data is now available via the CASDA portal and we’re currently migrating recent data deposits. No data has been lost. We anticipate […]

The Office of the Women in STEM Ambassador Initiative has released their findings into the effectiveness of anonymising applications for gender equality and the promotion of early career researchers. Our […]