Wajarri artist, Judith Anaru, painted a fast radio burst as part of a series commissioned by CSIRO to celebrate the research being undertaken with CSIRO’s ASKAP radio telescope on Wajarri Country. Credit: Judith Anaru, CRAFT, 2019 CRACO, a powerful new telescope technology from Australia, is helping astronomers detect mysterious cosmic signals faster than ever. It…

28 January 2025 News Release The first trial of an Australian-developed technology has detected mysterious objects by sifting through signals from space like sand on a beach.  Astronomers and engineers at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, developed the specialised system, CRACO, for their ASKAP radio telescope to rapidly detect mysterious fast radio bursts and other…

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered distant, overly massive supermassive black holes in the early universe. The black holes seem way too massive compared to the mass of the stars in the galaxies that host them. In the modern universe, for galaxies close to our own Milky Way, supermassive black holes…

A near-Earth “asteroid” recently spotted by astronomers poring through telescope data has turned out to be Elon Musk’s car. ADVERTISEMENT GO AD FREE On January 2, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of a new asteroid. The object was dubbed 2018 CN41 after the year and month when the telescope observations…

An asteroid the size of a school bus is set to zoom by the Earth on Tuesday, traveling several times faster than a speeding bullet. The asteroid, named 2025 BS4, is said by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be roughly 22 feet in diameter, with JPL’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) estimated that it…

A strange object initially thought to be a newly discovered asteroid actually turned out to be a Tesla zipping through space. The “asteroid” was designated 2018 CN41 on January 2 by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after its discovery by an amateur astronomer from Turkey. 2018…

What it is: The Antlia Cluster of galaxies (also called Abell S636) Where it is: 130 million light-years distant in the constellation Antlia, also known as the Air Pump When it was shared: Jan. 1, 2025 Why it’s so special: Astronomers used a telescope in Chile equipped with a highly sensitive camera to capture the…

An international team of astronomers has detected mysterious chirping signals in an unexpected region of space, raising major questions about how they’re created. Known as chorus waves, these signals are split-second bursts of electromagnetic radiation emitted from high above Earth’s surface. When converted into an audio format and drawn out, they sound eerily like birds…