After a stellar 50 years as one of the country’s major scientific assets, the Anglo-Australian Telescope continues to play a major role in keeping Australian astronomy on the world stage.
What started as a study to better understand how lobsters prey on sea urchins instead discovered sharks also predate on the pest.
Earth is getting a tiny new mini-moon for a few weeks. It won’t be the first – or the last.
Rivers all around the world are being given their own legal rights. But what does this mean? And how does it work?
Most Australians are enthusiastic beachgoers, and we all take for granted the waves that wash our shores. But supposing there were seas on other worlds – would they have such waves too?
New research into ancient fossil tracks discovered near Melbourne last year proves that dinosaurs lived at the poles.
The Gondwana supercontinent broke up millions of years ago. Now, researchers are piecing it back together again.
The birds that fill our mornings with songs and our parks and gardens with colour are disappearing from our cities, a new study has found.
Our understanding of where to find ancient life in Australia has been turned on its head by a new appreciation of the country’s geology. Now the world is looking to our vast outback as the latest hotspot to locate fossils.
Comets and meteorites aren’t just space rocks; they’re a window into the history of Earth and have plenty to teach about the planet’s formation.