Experts have scoured hundreds of kilometres of salt flats deep in the West Australian outback to find pieces of meteorite that lit up the night sky over Perth and other parts of the state.

The mystery of strangely blinking objects scattered throughout the Milky Way just deepened. Something 15,000 light-years away from the Sun isn't just slowly, methodically beaming out radio waves – ...

Photographer Stuart Mckay captures "starlapses" - time-lapse photography of the night sky. He lives in the coastal town of Agnes Water, Queensland, six and a half hours' drive north of the nearest ...

Aussies have been left stunned after an “out of this world” sight lit up the sky early on Mother’s Day. Experts from the Perth Observatory were able to capture the light through surveillance ...

In the desert, special moments begin with the fall of night: The sky fills with thousands of twinkling stars, and the quiet expanses invite you to stop, listen, and fill up on calm and serenity.

Without a new one, a generation of astronomers will lose access to the night sky, the Astronomical Society ... the next 10 years in the Western Australian desert. “If Australia is to maintain ...

Even by Aussie standards ... blew out of the desert. Wedge-tailed eagles, with their 7.5-foot wingspans, circled overhead. A flock of wild budgerigars swarmed the sky in a flash of green.

which may at times overshadow factual and historical understandings of the night sky, it acts like a Rorschach test, reflecting our own imaginations. “The desert aspect causes it to have an ...