A new UNSW report shows what Australia loses by not joining ESO
Full membership of the European Southern Observatory would cost Australia around $400 million over ten years — but a new economic analysis by UNSW Sydney argues the country is already…
Why astronauts’ brains struggle with gravity even after months in space
A study two decades in the making has revealed that the human brain's model of gravity is so deeply embedded that it persists — and misfires — long after astronauts…
Artemis II: Everything that happened when four astronauts went back to the Moon
On April 1, 2026, NASA launched Artemis II — the first crewed mission to fly to the Moon in over fifty years. Over ten days, Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor…
Scientists measure a black hole’s jet power for the first time — it equals 10,000 Suns
A Curtin University-led research team has made the first-ever direct measurement of the instantaneous power of jets from a black hole. Using a radio telescope network spanning the Earth to…
Gravitational Wave Data Confirms A Forbidden Black Hole Zone as a Sydney Physicist Aims to Fix Quantum Computing’s Error Problem
From gravitational wave data shaping black hole understanding, to our second part on the Artemis 2 mission and Australia's withdrawal from the European Southern Observatory.
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Australia’s withdrawal from the European Southern Observatory sparks scientific alarm
The Australian Academy of Science has condemned the federal government's decision to withdraw from its strategic partnership with the European Southern Observatory, warning the move…
Deep inside a Victorian gold mine, Australia’s dark matter detector passes a key test
The Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory in regional Victoria — the Southern Hemisphere's first deep underground physics lab — has confirmed that cosmic radiation levels inside…
Sydney physicist adapts particle physics theory to fix quantum computing’s error problem
Dr Dominic Williamson from the University of Sydney has published a new approach to quantum error correction that borrows from the mathematical framework of lattice…
What Artemis II can — and cannot — tell us about sending humans further into space
The ten-day Artemis II lunar flyby is not a scientific endpoint — it's the beginning of a data-gathering effort that will take years to fully…
Gravitational wave data confirms a forbidden zone where black holes can’t form
A Monash University-led international team has found compelling evidence for the long-predicted pair-instability mass gap — a range of black hole masses between roughly 50…
Life’s building blocks all found in asteroid samples as we start a dive into the Artemis II mission
From life’s building blocks confirmed in space rocks, to part one of our dive into the Artemis II mission and record nickel levels on Mars.…
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A new UNSW report shows what Australia loses by not joining ESO
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