Science & Environment
Transit of Venus through history
Three hundred years of adventures and misadventures to see the Transit of Venus helped us measure the heavens.
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2012 Transit of Venus from Australia
It’s the last chance to see the Transit of Venus for 105 years, so here’s all you need to know about this rare event.
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Experts hope LHC will help explain dark matter
Space mysteries are closer to being uncovered thanks to findings of the Large Hadron Collider.
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Black hole caught swallowing red giant star
A supermassive black hole has been caught in the act of swallowing up a red giant star.
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Tens of billions of planets are inhabitable
Astronomers have found that 40 per cent of Red Dwarf stars in the Milky Way have a super-Earth orbiting them.
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Diamond-shaped galaxy discovered
A new type of galaxy that resembles an emerald-cut diamond has been discovered by astronomers.
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New type of black hole yields secrets
The first study of a new variety of black hole is offering up clues that may help us understand the birth of galaxies.
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Moon mineral found in Western Australia
A rare mineral thought to exist only on the Moon’s surface has been discovered in WA’s Pilbara.
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Demoting Pluto as a planet
The controversy over Pluto’s status as a planet continues.
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Monster black holes discovered
The two biggest black holes ever discovered have been found to be 10 billion times the size of our Sun.