Sleepy spotless summer Sun's shock solar storm surge stuns scientists Vid Grab a digital cam to snap tonight's 'wimpy' X-class flare Science12 Sep 2014 | 10
Flurry of solar flare-ups sets off cosmic plasma explosion Vid Mass ejections flung into space as the Sun does its thing Science02 Sep 2014 | 12
Spin doctors crack 'impossible' asteroid hurtling towards Earth Pic Just what is glueing space trash oddball together? Science14 Aug 2014 | 42
CSIRO spells out cash-strapped astronomy future Parkes, Narrabri slimmed down and SKA will have to do without a Chief Scientist Science13 Aug 2014 | 2
True fact: Hubble telescope spots ZOMBIES in SPACE Dwarf stars survive supernovae (a trick we may need in a few billion years) Science07 Aug 2014 | 23
Six MEEELLION gigabytes-a-year space 'scope wins funding First light due to reach US$473m Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in 2019 Science06 Aug 2014 | 5
The Sun took a day off last week and made NO sunspots Someone needs to get that lazy star cooking again before things get cold around here Science21 Jul 2014 | 38
Give an exoplanet a new name: Fill in this form and hope these astro-boffins pick your $input Competition to label alien worlds could make you a star Science10 Jul 2014 | 15
HESS-II scope spots its first pulsar Gamma ray source seen from ground for first time Science06 Jul 2014 | 3
Titan's salty waters scupper the chances for alien life Saturnian ice moon may have 'Dead Sea'-like ocean Science03 Jul 2014 | 33
SUPER EARTH possibly home to life FOUND in our 'solar backyard' GJ 832c is just 16 light years away Science01 Jul 2014 | 22
'Sterile neutrinos' re-ignite 'we found dark-stuff' debate Still too early to say 'DARK MATTER FOUND', but the X-rays are encouraging Science26 Jun 2014 | 27
Shine on you crazy diamond: Distant dwarf may hide space jewel Cool dim star? Insert your Keanu Reeves joke here Science25 Jun 2014 | 40
Sky-scraping boffins mash amateur astronomers into huge virtual telescope Square Kilometre Array idea brought down to earth with ENHANCE code Science22 Jun 2014 | 8
cosmic belch from supermassive black hole stuns boffins Pic Rare high-speed gas absorbs X-ray radiation, say boffins Science20 Jun 2014 | 10
KA-BOOOM! Boffins blow up mountain to make way for telescope Not just Large – Extremely Large Telescope Science20 Jun 2014 | 25
Hubble space telescope seeks new encounter for Pluto-bound spacecraft Pluto mission? Never mind, we'll take a detour Science18 Jun 2014 | 23
We'll probe Pluto's moon cracks for mystery ocean – NASA Only New Horizons can prove if Charon once had water Science16 Jun 2014 | 18
NASA uses new technique to snap high-res asteroid images Video Read on for 3.5m resolution pics of Asteroid 2014 HQ124 Science16 Jun 2014 | 7
Come off it, Moon, Earth. We know you're 60 million years older than we thought 'Might seem a small difference, but it is important,' say boffins Science12 Jun 2014 | 84
Dream job ad appears: Data wrangler for Square Kilometre Array Curtin University seeks extreme sysadmin for Murchison 'scope On-Prem11 Jun 2014 | 4
MIGHTY SOLAR FLARES fail to DESTROY CIVILISATION. Yes! Vid Brace of X2-class sun burp blasts bounce off atmos, again Science11 Jun 2014 | 36
'GODZILLA WORLD' of the DRAGON CONSTELLATION - scientists Pics Mega-planet Kepler-10c not suffering from terrifying gas issues Science03 Jun 2014 | 10
SKA under budget cloud in the Great Oz Science Brain Drain Commitments? We've heard of them Legal26 May 2014 | 15
Scientists capture death star in violent explosion Supermassive Wolf-Rayets go up in blaze of supernova glory Science22 May 2014 | 25
We're from the same dust cloud, bro: Boffins find Sun's long-lost sibling Separated at birth Science12 May 2014 | 32
Actual spin doctors eye up alien world Beta Pictoris b: Young, hot ... and really fast Eight-hour day planet ideal for cat-nappers Science01 May 2014 | 42
NASA spots 'new' star just 7.2 light years away Brown dwarf is coldest sun we've ever seen Science28 Apr 2014 | 33
Privateers race to capture forgotten NASA space probe using crowdsourced cash Plan to hijack the International Sun/Earth Explorer after 36 years of wandering Science25 Apr 2014 | 34
Forget superstars, this HYPERGIANT star is 1,300 times the size of OUR SUN Pic Try orbiting this: the largest yellow giant ever spotted Science13 Mar 2014 | 29
What did you see, Elder Galaxies? What made you age so quickly? 1.6bn years old and already collecting a pension ... boffins baffled by new cosmic riddle Science12 Mar 2014 | 57
Indestructible Death Stars blow up planets with glowing KILL RAY Pics No convenient exhaust port this time, Luke Science11 Mar 2014 | 19
Hubble 'scope snaps 200,000-ton chunky crumble conundrum Vid Was it a cosmic murder? Break-up baffles boffins Science07 Mar 2014 | 26
WHOA: Get a load of Asteroid DX110 JUST MISSING planet EARTH Updated + vids 100ft space rock ducked between our planet and THE MOON Science05 Mar 2014 | 51
'G-WIZ like' object doing 40,000 MPH CRASHES on the MOON Vid Blast as bright as a star, from impact as heavy as a (very) reasonably priced car Science25 Feb 2014 | 41
Missing matter found by squinting through gravitational lens Fancy new particles not needed as Planck team weighs galaxies anew Science21 Feb 2014 | 14
SkyMapper turns up oldest star ever found There's no iron in this 13.6 billion-year-old fire Science10 Feb 2014 | 21
Amateurs find the 'HOLY GRAIL' supernova – right on our doorstep Pics Exploding star a mere 11.5 million light-years away and it's a boon for science Science22 Jan 2014 | 53
ALIEN WORLD Beta Pictoris snapped by Earth's Gemini 'scope May seem like a few pixels, but it's a decade of work Science08 Jan 2014 | 24
Earth cops first asteroid impact of 2014 Tiny intruder nearly missed by everyone Science06 Jan 2014 | 16
Euro satellite to count a billion stars, find origin of Milky Way You think that's a lot? It's only counting 1 per cent of galactic suns Science19 Dec 2013 | 21
Astroboffins spot HOT, YOUNG GIANT where she doesn't belong Pix No one understands her, but she's far out, man Science06 Dec 2013 | 25
Top comet-watcher pens ISON's emotional obituary 'Born 4.5 Billion BC, Fragmented Nov 28, 2013 (age 4.5-billion yrs old)' Science02 Dec 2013 | 16
'This BLACK HOLE just isn't BLACK AT ALL' snarl boffins Possibly something it ate Science28 Nov 2013 | 39
Tiny, invisible EXTRATERRESTRIAL INVADERS appear at South Pole Dozens travelled here almost at warp speed to hit beneath stilt base Science21 Nov 2013 | 70
BETHLEHEM-grade SUPERNOVA possible 'within 50 years' Pontiff-verified; but the Three Kings will need IR goggles this time Science01 Nov 2013 | 40
Space, digitisation and storage. Astronomy Legacy Project has it all Crowdfunding preservation of 220,000 fragile plates Storage26 Oct 2013 | 16
Pac-Man GHOST nebula is literally the coolest thing in the universe – boffins Pic Warming up in the Big Bang's background radiation Science25 Oct 2013 | 27
Comet ISON perhaps NOT GARBAGE after all - glows GREEN in latest snaps Derided mere weeks ago as washout, looking good again Science22 Oct 2013 | 37
Black hole boffins close in on gravity waves Peering at pulsars produces promising pulling premise Science21 Oct 2013 | 29
Watery asteroid discovered 150 light-years off hints at habitable worlds White dwarf drains juice from small victim Science11 Oct 2013 | 18
Boffins spot LONE PLANET roaming interstellar void Orbiting nothing, wandering homeless, 80 light years away Science10 Oct 2013 | 81
Boffins: Earth will be habitable for only 1.75 BEEELLION more years UK team floats method for picking exoplanets to study in search for the lair of ET Science20 Sep 2013 | 50
NASA releases first NuStar X-ray data burst Calls for Astroboffins to sift data, come up with bright ideas for future missions Science04 Sep 2013 |
Workers at world's largest – and most remote – telescope go on strike 'More money and bennies, or no more pretty starbirth snaps,' demand ALMA staffers Science23 Aug 2013 | 46
Mighty multi-scope snaps stunning STARBIRTH image 66 antennas up to 16km apart capture celestial violence 1400 years ago Science20 Aug 2013 | 18
Mother of Chelyabinsk spotted That Russian meteor? Plenty more where it came from Science12 Aug 2013 | 10
Indian military pondered attack on Venus and Jupiter Army retreats after boffins prove bright lights are planets, not Chinese aircraft Bootnotes26 Jul 2013 | 53
Planetary paparazzi snap candid pics of Earth, Moon from space Cassini, MESSENGER break out the long lenses Science23 Jul 2013 | 20