There will be a lot of activity surrounding the winter solstice on Thursday.
Professor Matthew Bailes has been honoured for his role in the discovery of fast radio bursts,mysterious pulses of energy from beyond the Milky Way.
Videos posted online show a meteor plummeting to Earth near Townsville on Saturday night,with locals reporting a loud bang and a bright flash of light.
Politicians interfering with peer-reviewed science grants is a “widespread source of despair” and should be stamped out,a review has found.
Darkness fell across the North West Cape about 11.29am AWST when the moon completely blocked the sun for a minute after temperatures dropped by five degrees suddenly.
Western Australia is the winner this time,with Thursday’s total solar eclipse best seen from Exmouth. But if you’re in Perth you won’t miss out entirely.
“The main show is the totality”:Thousands of eclipse chasers will assemble on Thursday in Exmouth,WA,where the moon will completely block out the sun during a rare hybrid solar eclipse.
Tens of thousands of international and interstate eclipse chasers are expected to flock to Exmouth on Thursday when the moon casts a 40 kilometre-wide shadow over the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo reef region.
Two ‘eclipse chasers’ will join thousands of others flocking to Exmouth in Western Australia’s north this week to witness a total solar eclipse. Exmouth will have the best view in the world.
A European spacecraft has taken off on a decade-long quest to explore Jupiter and three of its icy moons.
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was discovered by astronomers in March last year and the “dirty snowball” hasn’t come this close to our planet since the last ice age.