Upgrades will boost Australian radio telescopes
New receivers and digital signal processors will dramatically enhance the capabilities of CSIRO’s Parkes and the Australia Telescope Compact Array radio telescopes.
Your night sky guide for 2020
Eclipses, oppositions, spectacular conjunctions and a close encounter between Venus and the Pleiades await stargazers this year.
NASA tests under-ice robot in Antarctica
The craft is a forerunner of the kind of robot that might one day explore underneath the ice crust of Jupiter’s moon Europa.
Neutron star crash likely formed a new black hole
A collision between two neutron stars probably resulted in the formation a black hole, according to gravitational wave data.
Partial solar eclipse on December 26
Residents of Darwin and other places in the northern half of Australia will be treated to a partial solar eclipse on December 26.
Mars 2020’s protective cocoon nears completion
The structure will protect NASA’s next Mars rover from temperatures as high as 2,100°C during entry into the planet’s atmosphere.
