There are some massive galaxies out there, and we now know a little about their early life.Credit: Lauro Roger McAllister/Flickr, CC BY By Edward Taylor, University of Melbourne A piece of the galaxy…

Astronomers have caught a glimpse of the earliest stages of massive galaxy construction - a dense galactic core blazing with the light of millions of newborn stars that are forming at a ferocious…

Where should we go, on Mars, to look for droplets and streaks of present day liquid water? You may have heard of the "warm seasonal flows", and the recent "swimming pools of bacteria".  However…

New simulations hope to uncover the origin of the ultraviolet light that bathes the cosmos, helping scientists understand how galaxies were built.  "Which produces more light? A country's…

This is an exciting field which developed over just the last six years or so. There are many academic papers - but I haven't been able to find a good overview of the field in non technical language.…

New research may help to solve the mystery of what caused a spectacular supernova in galaxy M82 11 million light years away. The supernova, a giant explosion of a star and the closest one to the…

Across Australia, catch Mars and Saturn around 8 pm local time.Source: Museum Victoria/Stellarium By Tanya Hill, Museum Victoria Look up at the night sky this week and you’ll find Mars and Saturn…

NASA proposes to return a sample from Mars in the 1920s and recently announced details of the successor for Curiosity which will drill and cache samples for return. But is this the best approach in…

A new captured by the Wide Field Imager at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile shows two dramatic star formation regions in the southern Milky Way. On the left is the star cluster NGC 3603, located…

The Hypatia Catalog is the largest catalog ever produced for stellar compositions and seeks to help in understanding the properties of stars, how they form, and possible connections with orbiting…