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The CSIRO's Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, a radio telescope that has few equals in the world, has been used to conduct a survey of the entire southern sky in record speed and detail, creating a new atlas of the universe.

The federal government has launched phase two of the Murchison Widefield Array "world-leading” low frequency radio telescope located in the Murchison Radio Quiet Zone, in Western Australia, designed to examine the origins of the universe.

While still having no idea why, Astronomers have confirmed that the Universe's expansion rate is ever-increasing.

Australia had plenty of moon units gazing up at Earth's major orbiter early this morning, as a red, dead moondemption eclipsed the threat of ash - but wasn't able to overcome view-marring cloudy weather for some.

Some things are more relative than others, they say, and some are more incomprehensible too. Every now and then It pays to review our position in the scale of things, helping us to renew our wonderment about the cosmos and understand better the relative import of daily dramas and events.

The Planck Space Telescope has produced its first full-sky image of light from 380 million years after the Big Bang: what is called 'first light.' It is the sharpest image yet to be produced of the early universe.

An U.K. study performed at Durham University suggests that the amount of dark matter and dark energy that astronomers contend to exist in the universe could be wrong. The U.K. astronomers say it might not even be out there.

A European physicist states that a new single-particle model reveals how the universe was initially created, as well as its subsequent expansion into its present form. This is the final installment in a three-part interview with the author of the cosmological theory he calls the extended Standard Model, or xSM.