19 November 2021
New mission to search for habitable planets close to Earth announced
...mission that Australia should be very proud of-it is an exciting, bleeding-edge space telescope supplied by an exceptional international collaboration,” Dr. Jason Held, CEO of Saber Astronautics, says. “It will be a joy to fly this bird." The project...
22 September 2021
Telescope built by Karoo locals releases data to astronomers around the world
...possible for astronomers to peer into the universe deeper than ever before. A US-led project, HERA is a large international collaboration, with a strong South African participation, from construction to science. The goal of HERA is to observe how the...
08 February 2016
Japan’s Astro-H mission due to launch on February 12, 2016
...for High-ENergy Astrophysics mission, expected to launch late next decade. ASTRO-H has been built by a major international collaboration led by JAXA with over 70 contributing institutions in Japan, the US and Canada. The satellite carries three other...
13 April 2016
The mystery of neutrino mass to be solved by a calcium isotope
... of the study's co-authors who have analysed and modelled this process in unprecedented detail. Although several international collaborations are running experiments to independently measure this process, it was the teams improved calculation of the...
22 May 2017
Researchers create largest-ever 3D map of the Universe
... created a precise map of the expansion of the Universe over the last 10 billion years. The map, created by an international collaboration of scientists using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), not only reveals the large-scale structure...
21 February 2018
Oldest known superluminous supernova discovered
... at the heart of this discovery is known as DES16C2nm and it was detected by the Dark Energy Survey (DES); an international collaboration of more than 400 scientists from over 25 institutions worldwide that began in 2013. DESt is set to map several...
