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Thursday, 14 January 2016
Planet patterns Curious "spider vein" starburst markings are cropping up on Mars in the red planet's annual spring show.
Thursday, 7 January 2016
A meteorite estimated to be 4.5 billion years old has been recovered by Perth researchers from a remote part of Lake Eyre in outback South Australia
Thursday, 31 December 2015
Aussie sky guide January may not have any spectacular comets or eclipses to herald the New Year, but the January skies will have lots to fill you with wonder, writes Ian Musgrave.
Thursday, 17 December 2015
Goldilocks planet Australian astronomers have discovered the closest potentially habitable planet found outside our solar system so far - a super-Earth located just 14 light years away.
Wednesday, 16 December 2015
StarStuff Podcast FINAL EPISODE: Bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres are giant salt pans. Also; climate change slowing the planet's rotation, and searching for the universe's missing matter.
Tuesday, 15 December 2015
Water worlds Astronomers confirm water is a key ingredient for making planets, after discovering water exists on a range of exoplanets called hot Jupiters.
Monday, 14 December 2015
Geminids meteor shower This year's Geminids meteor shower should provide a fittingly spectacular finale to 2015 the International Year of Light with an estimated 150 meteors an hour expected to light up the moonless night skies.
Thursday, 10 December 2015
Green moon NASA has released a composite image of Saturn's largest moon Titan, constructed from photos taken by the Cassini spacecraft, that shows the moon's surface instead of its hazy atmosphere.
Thursday, 10 December 2015
Mystery spots Mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres are giant salt pans caused by the evaporation of water - - possibly from a subsurface ocean - - according to data from the Dawn space mission.
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
StarStuff Podcast Astronomers observe for the first time how the Sun acts as a powerful accelerator. Also: The LISA Pathfinder launches on its mission to test Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, and discovery of another possible dwarf planet out beyond Pluto.
Tuesday, 8 December 2015 2
Great Moments in Science Scientists recently witnessed the birth an exoplanet the size of Jupiter. Dr Karl explains how planets are born from the apparent emptiness of space.
Saturday, 5 December 2015
Pluto up close NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back what the space agency has described as the best close-ups of Pluto that humans may see for decades.
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
StarStuff Podcast A monster black hole rips apart a Sun-like star in a spectacular stellar feeding frenzy. Also; Earth's magnetic field isn't about to flip just yet, and the new model explaining how the Moon got its tilt.
Thursday, 26 November 2015
How the Moon got its tilt Ancient planetary building blocks or planetesimals left over from the formation of the solar system flying close to the Moon, were enough to tilt the Moon's orbit.
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
StarStuff Podcast Scientists witness for the first time how planets are born and grow. Also; The red planet Mars to get a Saturn-like ring, and 100 years of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.