There’s something magical about meteor showers, a sky of shooting stars twinkling across the sky. It seems a fitting way to ...

The vast, seemingly empty gulf of space occasionally tosses us a gift — a visitor from beyond the confines of our own Solar ...

You might think of Australia's arid center as a dry desert landscape devoid of aquatic life. But it's actually dotted with ...

An Australian startup wants to recycle a geostationary satellite to get an up-close look at the "doomsday" asteroid Apophis.

THE Mornington Peninsula Shire has approved a new long-term lease for the Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society (MPAS). At the council meeting on 5 November, councillors voted unanimously for the ...

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PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The GMTO Corporation, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit and international consortium building the Giant Magellan Telescope, today announced a leadership ...

New leadership appointed to guide the next phase of construction as Dr. Walter Massey concludes nearly a decade of service as chair of the GMTO Corporation Board of Directors PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 04 ...

The scientists’ eyes are drawn to bright pinpricks of light; they connect star to star, ordering them into constellations and audibly reciting their names — Orion, Southern Cross, Milky Way. In this ...

ICRAR astronomers produced the most detailed low-frequency radio image of the Milky Way, revealing new insights into stars and galactic structure. From: International Centre for Radio Astronomy ...

Researchers from Nordita (The Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics) at Stockholm University in Sweden, together with colleagues from Vanderbilt University in the United States, have published two ...