A catalyst for one-step conversion of methane to methanol
11 September, 2024A highly selective catalyst can convert methane (a major component of natural gas) into methanol (an easily transportable liquid fuel) — all in a single reaction.
LZ experiment advances the search for dark matter
27 August, 2024The world's most sensitive dark matter detector has narrowed down the possibilities for one of the leading theoretical dark matter candidates: weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs.
Promising replacement for polyethylene glycols developed
16 July, 2024Researchers have discovered a highly promising replacement for polyethylene glycols (PEGs), which are considered almost indispensable in the pharmaceutical and medical fields.
Milestone as intermediate-mass black hole found in Omega Centauri
11 July, 2024Astronomers have found compelling evidence for the presence of an intermediate-mass black hole — a 'missing link' from the early stages of galaxy evolution — just 17,700 light-years away from Earth.
Watching the birth of the universe's earliest galaxies
30 May, 2024The James Webb Space Telescope has helped researchers to witness the birth of some of the universe's earliest galaxies, somewhere between 13.3 and 13.4 billion years ago.
Found: the most massive stellar black hole in the Milky Way
19 April, 2024With a mass 33 times that of the Sun, and based a mere 1926 light-years away, Gaia BH3 is the second-closest known black hole to Earth.
SKA-Low radio telescope takes big step forward in WA
11 March, 2024The first of more than 130,000 two-metre-tall antennas that will make up the SKA-Low radio telescope were installed last week in the Mid West region of Western Australia.
Webb telescope unearths an ancient galaxy that shouldn't exist
16 February, 2024The telescope found that a massive galaxy in the early universe — observed 11.5 billion years ago — has an extremely old population of stars formed much earlier.
Astronomers detect the oldest black hole ever found
19 January, 2024The black hole is surprisingly massive, with its existence so early in the universe challenging our assumptions about how black holes form and grow.
Distant fast radio burst offers path to weigh the universe
23 October, 2023Scientists have found the most ancient and distant blast of cosmic radio waves to date, located so far away that its light took eight billion years to reach Earth.
Bennu asteroid sample found to contain carbon and water
12 October, 2023Initial studies of a sample of the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu show evidence of high carbon content and water, which together indicate that the building blocks of life on Earth may be found in the rock.
NASA's first ever asteroid sample has landed on Earth
27 September, 2023NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft travelled across the solar system and back to visit an asteroid named Bennu and collect a sample — a sample that has now been brought back to Earth.
Giant 'bubble' of galaxies a remnant of the early universe
21 September, 2023Astronomers have discovered a giant 'bubble' of galaxies, measuring one billion light-years across, which they believe to be a fossil-like remnant of the birth of the universe.
New stellar object challenges our knowledge of neutron stars
20 July, 2023Astronomers have discovered what they believe to be an ultralong-period magnetar — a rare type of neutron star that can produce powerful bursts of energy.
Astronomers find a planet that shouldn't exist
18 July, 2023As the first known close-in planet around a core-helium burning star, Halla shows that exoplanet discoveries might still surprise us by appearing where they are least expected.
