Astronomers have discovered the oldest known stars, dating from before the Milky Way Galaxy formed, when the Universe was just 300 million years old.

Have you ever wondered why your laptop computer works well for a few years, but then starts to give up the ghost?

Chemists have created a star-shaped molecule previously thought to be too unstable to be made.

A new species of African lizard, described by a team of researchers including staff at the ANU Research School of Biology, has been named after Sir David Attenborough.

The leadership of the ANU fusion program has always had a strong reputation internationally for scientific excellence.

Australian scientists and industry will play a key role in an international collaboration to build the world's most powerful optical telescope after the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) passed a major construction milestone.

Scientists have captured the early death throes of supernovae for the first time and found that the universe's benchmark explosions are much more varied than expected.

Professor Chennupati Jagadish and his research team have been growing extremely small wires called nanowires, which can be used to make lasers and solar cells.